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the chairman of the bbc, richard sharp, is facing questions in parliament this morning. he's appearing in front of the digital, media, culture & sport committee — he's likely to be asked about his involvement in securing a loan for former prime minister boris johnson. let's listen in. establish the facts about the loan arrangement with the then prime minister, which was being set up at the same time as he was making the

appointment of the bbc chair. essentially, from what i've read, there were three people involved, sam blythe, borisjohnson and you. who started the whole procedure, who approached herfirst? weill. who started the whole procedure, who approached her first?— approached her first? well, first of all, thank approached her first? well, first of all. thank you _ approached her first? well, first of all, thank you very _ approached her first? well, first of all, thank you very much _ approached her first? well, first of all, thank you very much for - approached her first? well, first of all, thank you very much for giving i all, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to clarify these issues, because as you say, there is some confusion. i should point out, believe it was actually two years ago that i was subject to the scrutiny for the appointment, it was not a year ago. and i will also want to make it clear that i've never given financial advice to the former prime minister, he never aspera never received it from me and i will get into the details of a relationship. the starting point, any way you described it, it is my long—standing relationship and friendship with mr blyth, some day i met after he had left university, and after i had left university some 40 and after i had left university some a0 years ago. so mr blyth is a

personal friend a0 years ago. so mr blyth is a personalfriend of mine a0 years ago. so mr blyth is a personal friend of mine who a0 years ago. so mr blyth is a personalfriend of mine who i've known for some time. as a result of press reports that he had read in september, he raised with me at that time his concern that his cousin, the prime minister, was reported in these press reports to have some difficulties. mr blyth raised to me the fact that he was interested in reading about whether he could do something to help. he raised that with me at a private dinner at his house, i said to him at that time he may be a family member, but you need to be very careful, things need to be done by the book, there are rules in this country and these rules exist for a good reason, you are a foreigner, and therefore before you

contemplate doing anything or providing any assistance to the prime minister, you should involve the cabinet office. and he raised that issue with me and that was the end of it at that point in time. that was in september? that's correct. that was in september? that's correct 50 _ that was in september? that's correct. so what _ that was in september? that's correct. so what was _ that was in september? that's correct. so what was the - that was in september? that's i correct. so what was the position then with your— correct. so what was the position then with your seeking _ correct. so what was the position then with your seeking the - correct. so what was the position then with your seeking the bbc. then with your seeking the bbc chairmanship? 50 i then with your seeking the bbc chairmanship?— then with your seeking the bbc chairmanshi? , ., , ., chairmanship? so i should explain, when the pandemic— chairmanship? so i should explain, when the pandemic arose, - chairmanship? so i should explain, when the pandemic arose, there i chairmanship? so i should explain, i when the pandemic arose, there was clearly a national economic crisis, and the then chancellor asked me whether i would support, come and work for him as a special economic adviser to the treasury, and in supporting industries, in particularly large companies, as they needed capital survive during they needed capital survive during the pandemic. so i focused on industry such as steel, etc, we can go into more detail, by that time

therefore i was working, because of therefore i was working, because of the pandemic, the operations were run out of number 11 downing st, which as you noisy connected office with number ten and the cabinet office, so i was working there and office, so i was working there and during that period of time roundabout i think 0ctober, during that period of time roundabout i think october, the existing speculated frontrunner for the chairmanship withdrew. at that time, i had, ishould say, been working on specialfilm insurance time, i had, ishould say, been working on special film insurance to keep the film industry going, which uniquely in this country we achieved with 50-100,000 jobs uniquely in this country we achieved with 50—100,000 jobs at stake, and also the cultural recovery fund, putting them in place for support in the country, cultural institutions. that put me in contact with a lot of people from the media world, and

albeit that in my primary... before my prior work experience i had worked with media companies, this was a new experience for me. so some of my friends at that time suggested to me that i should consider applying for thejob. so i was working in effect at home and in downing street, it was during the pandemic, and ifi downing street, it was during the pandemic, and if i can remind you, before the first vaccine, it may have just been discovered, but had not been provided. but it was pretty clear to me that a lot of the bulk of the work i had had to do, i had done, and i was very interested in the prospect of working, submitting my application to be the chair of the bbc and i did so. this my application to be the chair of the bbc and i did so.— the bbc and i did so. this was happening _ the bbc and i did so. this was happening at _ the bbc and i did so. this was happening at pretty _ the bbc and i did so. this was happening at pretty much - the bbc and i did so. this was happening at pretty much the| the bbc and i did so. this was - happening at pretty much the same time. you've been told by sam blythe in september that he would take your advice as to whether he should help

the prime minister, and in the following weeks you thought 0k, the prime minister, and in the following weeks you thought ok, i am up following weeks you thought ok, i am up for thisjob, because following weeks you thought ok, i am up for this job, because any sense thatis up for this job, because any sense that is what is relevant. because given that you clearly, you see in september that he realised there were proprietary issues involved, did it not occur to you at that because you were applying for a job that the prime minister of the day would appoint, that you should say to him, look, whatever you want to do, that's fine, a matterfor you, but i can't be involved because i'm applying to be chair of the bbc. hill it may be, it's almost hard to recall the timing, but what happened at that point... if i recall the timing, but what happened at that point- - -_ at that point... if i recall, there was another — at that point... if i recall, there was another lockdown. - at that point... if i recall, there was another lockdown. you - at that point... if i recall, there - was another lockdown. you worked in the office if he needed to. so i was

working and, to me, that was an after—dinner party, and that was no more than that and that was the last i had heard of that point from mr sam blyth on the matter and i did not see him after that. you sam blyth on the matter and i did not see him after that.— not see him after that. you never discussed it _ not see him after that. you never discussed it with _ not see him after that. you never discussed it with him _ not see him after that. you never| discussed it with him september? not see him after that. you never- discussed it with him september? no, the next discussed it with him september? iifr, the next moment i had any contact from sam blyth on the matter was when he called me and said... i then submitted my application, i basically communicated to the prime minister and to the chancellor that i wish to apply, and submitted my application in november. following that, towards the end of november, i received a call from sam blyth saying she was interested in exploring with the cabinet office what possibly he could do to help his cousin, and he asked me if i could put him in touch with the cabinet secretary. that was a phone call i received from him. at that

time. call i received from him. at that time, , call i received from him. at that time. ,, , ., . time. so you did put him in touch with the cabinet? _ time. so you did put him in touch with the cabinet? yes, _ time. so you did put him in touch with the cabinet? yes, so - time. so you did put him in touch with the cabinet? yes, so i - time. so you did put him in touch with the cabinet? yes, so i then l with the cabinet? yes, so i then arranue with the cabinet? yes, so i then arrange to _ with the cabinet? yes, so i then arrange to go — with the cabinet? yes, so i then arrange to go subsequently, - with the cabinet? yes, so i then arrange to go subsequently, we | with the cabinet? yes, so i then . arrange to go subsequently, we can go through the sequence, i then met the cabinet secretary and got his agreement that he would at least, that i could pass his number, and i did pass as number two sam blyth to get in contact with the cabinet office. 50 get in contact with the cabinet office. , ., ,, ., office. so your meeting with simon case, the cabinet _ office. so your meeting with simon case, the cabinet secretary, - office. so your meeting with simon case, the cabinet secretary, was i case, the cabinet secretary, was purely to discuss whether he would speak to sam live?— purely to discuss whether he would speak to sam live? yes, i've spoken to mr blyth. — speak to sam live? yes, i've spoken to mr blyth. he _ speak to sam live? yes, i've spoken to mr blyth, he wanted _ speak to sam live? yes, i've spoken to mr blyth, he wanted to _ speak to sam live? yes, i've spoken to mr blyth, he wanted to explore . to mr blyth, he wanted to explore ways he could help the prime minister and therefore he asked me if he could be introduced to the cabinet secretary and at that meeting i raised with sam by the fact i had submitted my application to being the chair of the bbc, and

therefore to avoid a conflict or perception of conflict, i could have, and we agreed, no further participation in whatever transpired, and i did not. so you acted as a _ transpired, and i did not. so you acted as a sort _ transpired, and i did not. so you acted as a sort of— transpired, and i did not. so you acted as a sort of introduction i acted as a sort of introduction agent? acted as a sort of introduction auent? ~ w , acted as a sort of introduction aaent? , ., acted as a sort of introduction atent? . , ., .,, agent? well, exactly what i did was insured that — agent? well, exactly what i did was insured that due _ agent? well, exactly what i did was insured that due process _ agent? well, exactly what i did was insured that due process and i insured that due process and proprietary was followed in the interests of what mr blyth had learned from me, that that was an entirely appropriate thing to do in the context, despite the fact he is a family member, i should also say i had mentioned to that he was a foreigner, and therefore there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed that could prevent him from providing any support whatsoever. the best people to address that with would be the cabinet office, hence he asked me to put, he rang me up asking me to put him in touch with mr case. bill of him in touch with mr case. all of that seems _ him in touch with mr case. all of that seems fine _ him in touch with mr case. all of that seems fine but _ him in touch with mr case. all of that seems fine but i'm - him in touch with mr case. all of that seems fine but i'm still i him in touch with mr case. all of that seems fine but i'm still not| that seems fine but i'm still not clear why you needed to go and have a meeting with simon case to say

there is this guy who wants to help there is this guy who wants to help the prime minister and there may be propriety issues, so you want to talk to him, because that seems overblown. talk to him, because that seems overblown-— talk to him, because that seems overblown. ~ ., , ., ~ overblown. well, i was working in the same office _ overblown. well, i was working in the same office operation, - overblown. well, i was working in the same office operation, clearly mr case did not know mr blyth at all and mr blyth wanted to have contact with the cabinet office on the way i described. ., , ,., , ., ., described. there was reports of a dinner party _ described. there was reports of a dinner party attended _ described. there was reports of a dinner party attended by - described. there was reports of a dinner party attended by you i described. there was reports of a dinner party attended by you and| described. there was reports of a i dinner party attended by you and mr blyth november 2020, did that happen? blyth november 2020, did that ha--en? . blyth november 2020, did that ha en? ., ., ,., blyth november 2020, did that hauen? ., ., ., happen? no, that is a factual inaccuracy- — happen? no, that is a factual inaccuracy. did _ happen? no, that is a factual inaccuracy. did they - happen? no, that is a factual inaccuracy. did theyjust i happen? no, that is a factual inaccuracy. did theyjust get l happen? no, that is a factual| inaccuracy. did theyjust get it inaccuracy. did they 'ust get it wron: ? inaccuracy. did they 'ust get it wrong? ves. h inaccuracy. did they 'ust get it wrong? yes, they i inaccuracy. did theyjust get it wrong? yes, they have - inaccuracy. did theyjust get it wrong? yes, they have got i inaccuracy. did theyjust get it wrong? yes, they have got it| inaccuracy. did theyjust get it i wrong? yes, they have got it wrong and acknowledge _ wrong? yes, they have got it wrong and acknowledge that _ wrong? yes, they have got it wrong| and acknowledge that subsequently. wrong? yes, they have got it wrong i and acknowledge that subsequently. a dinner did take place, but it took place in may, and that was after i was the chair of the bbc, and i, that was the dinner i took the opportunity, as it subsequently discussed, with the

director—general, to promote the interests of the bbc to try and get an effective licence fee settlement. you said this morning you have never provided financial advice, and yet, there is a cabinet office know from simon case to borisjohnson saying given the imminent announcement of richard sharpe is the new bbc chair, it's important you no longer ask his advice about your personal financial... that seems to contradict what you have to well, i have not seen that memo. aye it was in the sunday times two weeks ago. i have not seen the memo itself, i have not seen the memo itself, i have seen the report obviously and i discuss that with the cabinet office. what simon case undertook to 0ffice. what simon case undertook to me and i was very grateful for that the meeting, he said i will ensure you have no further part in this. and i had no further part in it. so that memo, in fact, discuss the with a cabinet official, because i only

learned about this over the weekend when, as you did, when a journalist put that to me. i learned from the cabinet office, it did refer to the meeting i had had with mrjohnson, which was alerting him to the fact that i was going to go and see simon case, and at that meeting i did not provide mrjohnson advice. i think it was an ambiguous construction, but obviously is open to misinterpretation. i have never given the prime minister advice, he has never sought to, i know nothing about his personal financial affairs, so i take it that that phrasing, and i had that confirmed to me on officially by the cabinet office before the article was office before the article was written, was that referred to the fact that efforts were there to prevent me from receiving any calls from the prime minister to protect my position and to protect his, for that matter. my position and to protect his, for that matter-— that matter. that is an interesting readina that matter. that is an interesting readin: of that matter. that is an interesting reading of the _ that matter. that is an interesting reading of the phrase _ that matter. that is an interesting reading of the phrase it _ that matter. that is an interesting reading of the phrase it is - reading of the phrase it is important that you no longer ask his advice about your personal financial

matters. that clearly implies that he had asked you advice. he matters. that clearly implies that he had asked you advice.- matters. that clearly implies that he had asked you advice. he had not asked my advice. _ he had asked you advice. he had not asked my advice. so _ he had asked you advice. he had not asked my advice. so simon - he had asked you advice. he had not asked my advice. so simon case i he had asked you advice. he had not asked my advice. so simon case is l asked my advice. so simon case is wron: ? asked my advice. so simon case is wrong? element _ asked my advice. so simon case is wrong? element that _ asked my advice. so simon case is wrong? element that phrasing i asked my advice. so simon case is wrong? element that phrasing is i wrong? element that phrasing is wrong. i don't know who wrote the memo, i don't know if it was simon case someone else rather than him... but i did not provide and have not provided the prime minister, former prime minister, personalfinancial prime minister, personal financial advice. prime minister, personalfinancial advice. i know nothing about his affairs, i never have done, his financial affairs, and i would not provide him with financial advice. aye when you say nothing, presumably you knew... all i knew was press reports. you knew... all i knew was press re orts. ., ., you knew... all i knew was press reorts. ., ., ., . ., reports. that he had financial issues and — reports. that he had financial issues and that _ reports. that he had financial issues and that my _ reports. that he had financial issues and that my goal i i reports. that he had financial issues and that my goal i had reports. that he had financial. issues and that my goal i had no interest in providing him with financial advice. my interest was to introduce mr blyth to simon case, because mr blyth wanted to help the prime minister and i wanted to ensure that his request, that there is a process by which all the rules could be followed appropriately.

did you ever give informal advice as a friend of borisjohnson? studio: we are going to pull away from the questioning of the bbc chairman richard sharp. being asked about any involvement he had in the situation involvement he had in the situation in which the former prime minister borisjohnson secured a loan, before mr sharp's appointment as bbc chairman, when he was in the process of applying for the role. he is repeating he made seven introductions but saying he never gave any financial advice to boris johnson nor had any been sought. that session continues in parliament, but staying with matters political, i want to bring you some updates. we've been reporting today

about the reshuffle that has been taking place or is about to take place, rishi sunak doing some reorganising of the government after nadhim zahawi was sacked as conservative party chairman. according to the times newspaper, this concurs with what our chief political correspondent was telling us a little earlier, greg hands will be the new conservative party chairman to replace nadhim zahawi. greg hands, you can see him on your screens, he is replacing nadhim zahawi as chairman of the conservative party. has been a trade minister, the mp for chelsea and fulham, and according to the times, grant sharps is expected to be named energy security minister —— grant shapps. we arejust

energy security minister —— grant shapps. we are just waiting for further confirmation of the appointments, but the reshuffle is under way. a third earthquake hit central turkey early this morning, as the rescue operation continues across the region to try to find survivors of the two massive quakes which struck yesterday. in the last few minutes, we've learned that now more than 5,000 people are known to have died in turkey and in northern syria, with that number rising all the time. these are the scenes live in dikarbakir in southern turkey where a rescue effort is taking place now at the scene of a several story building that collapsed. freezing conditions are making it even harder to find those trapped under rubble.

7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquake yesterday. freezing conditions. international aid and rescue teams porting into the area. it is clear there are still hope survivors will be pulled out of some of these collapsed buildings. we have seen some being plucked from the rubble already and across the border in syria it has been badly affected. as efforts continue to free people trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. this video was filmed by the white helmets rescue group, which operates in rebel—held northwest syria. it shows a family, including a small child, trapped on the third floor of their partially collapsed apartment block in afrin in the early hours of this morning. and in the same city — afrin — you can see another rescuer trying to free a child trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building — — eventually the child is pulled to safety

0ur correspondent azadeh moshiri reports on the overnight rescue operations. it's a race to save lives that includes the smallest ones. syria's voluntary civil defence group, the white helmets, pulled ahmed out to safety. they say his family's home north of aleppo has been completely destroyed by the earthquake. syria was already torn apart by war. it is home to millions of refugees. the white helmets say ahmed is one of them. millions of people are reeling across the region from

the horrors they've witnessed. translation: my wife is still. in there, my wife is still in there. one should never give up on hope, but most probably she died. the first 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit near the turkish city of gaziantep in the early hours of the morning. a second 7.5 quake then hit further north in the afternoon. millions of people across turkey, syria, lebanon, cyprus and israel, felt them. now survivors are relying on emergency services to find them. but also on help from their neighbours, friends, and even strangers. this man tied a string to a water bottle and lowered it into the rubble for the survivors trapped beneath. translation: we have received several offers of international i aid for our country. offers of assistance from a5 countries, including nato and the european union, have reached us.

emergency service teams have been deployed from around the world. they are now on the ground searching for bodies and offering food and shelter. and that help is essential. many are still missing. this young girl asks, "where is my mum?" some who have survived, now find themselves homeless. these bonfires are what keep them warm during a biting winter. translation: we'll be | cold here until morning, freezing, getting wet. we've got no place to go, no place to stay. my god, we don't even have a bed. as the search for survivors continues, rescue teams have another task at hand — counting the dead in one

of the biggest earthquakes to hit the region in decades. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. let's speak now to the journalist ibrahim haskologlu, who is based in istanbul. i know you are planning to go to your hometown later. tell us about where that is in relation to istanbul and what you have from your hometown. . ~ istanbul and what you have from your hometown. ., ,, , ., istanbul and what you have from your hometown. . ~' , ., ., istanbul and what you have from your hometown. ., ,, , ., ., ., hometown. thank you for having me. at the beginning _ hometown. thank you for having me. at the beginning people _ hometown. thank you for having me. at the beginning people suffering i at the beginning people suffering right now, many are still under the buildings and waiting to help. as you mention, i'm planning to go to my hometown. but are still in under the buildings and waiting for rescue teams and forces, government sources. and if you survive the

earthquake, the pupils are facing the coldest day in the east of turkey. many people are facing the freezing outside of turkey and as a journalist said the bill normally in turkey and are sending to us videos under the buildings, and they are sending as addresses, videos, some of them sending voice messages and we can do nothing because... messages and we can do nothing because- - -_ messages and we can do nothing because... just to be clear, sorry to interrupt. _ because... just to be clear, sorry to interrupt, so _ because... just to be clear, sorry to interrupt, so you _ because... just to be clear, sorry to interrupt, so you were - because... just to be clear, sorry to interrupt, so you were sayingl to interrupt, so you were saying people currently trapped are sending messages, video messages using their phones, to say that they are trapped? phones, to say that they are tra ed? , ,

phones, to say that they are trapped? id�*s. to try phones, to say that they are trapped? ds. to try to reach out to trapped? d3 to try to reach out to someone, anyone, families, to say that they are still alive and hoping and praying to be rescued. yes. and praying to be rescued. yes, --eole, and praying to be rescued. yes, peeple. as _ and praying to be rescued. yes, people. as you _ and praying to be rescued. yes, people. as you say. _ and praying to be rescued. yes, people, as you say, under- and praying to be rescued. 16713 people, as you say, under the buildings, sending videos, please help us, save us, we are living, but it does not want to be like this, and there's saying please help us, we need to do forces but we can do nothing because thousands of buildings have collapsed in the earthquake has impacted a huge area east of turkey, and there is a lot of villagers, and the villagers are very farfrom the of villagers, and the villagers are very far from the centre, and we just know until now the government did not find the other villages,

many villages we did not touch because of the air conditioning, the roadways caused in the forces trying to reach these villages. d0 roadways caused in the forces trying to reach these villages.— roadways caused in the forces trying to reach these villages. do you know of any examples _ to reach these villages. do you know of any examples where _ to reach these villages. do you know of any examples where someone i to reach these villages. do you know| of any examples where someone who has been trapped has been able to directly directly rescue as to where they are? directly directly rescue as to where the are? . directly directly rescue as to where the are? , ., ., , ., they are? yes, for example, i am usin: they are? yes, for example, i am using twitter _ they are? yes, for example, i am using twitter very _ they are? yes, for example, i am using twitter very often _ they are? yes, for example, i am using twitter very often and i they are? yes, for example, i am using twitter very often and they | using twitter very often and they are sending us a message from twitter dm saying their addresses, saying i am at this stage, i am waiting to help, and my battery is getting down, please come before we die, please send us some help.

actually, thousands of people sending these messages to everyone. they are under buildings, during this time sending messages and videos, video chat, video messages, everything, but we can do nothing. for this reason, tricky collar emergency call, calling emergency help, and for this reason, turkish people need international help from everyone, every country, united states of america, europe. people in turkey want every help, open to help from any countries of the world. thank you so much.— from any countries of the world. thank you so much. thank you for havin: thank you so much. thank you for having me- _ offers of help are coming

in from around the world, including many charities and voluntary organisations. 0ne uk team — react disaster response — headed out this morning. team leader paul taylor told us what they were expecting. the key for us is going to be getting into turkey, and in my experience, the aftermath of these events is very much the realm of uncertainty. we can make some assumptions about what people might need, and certainly as was expressed in your report, the focus now is on the search and rescue efforts, but as was well orchestrated, people who, or fixed, essentially, because they cannot go back to their homes because of the aftershocks or the secondary hazard of another big earthquake, and they have no shelter. we will be focused on an assessment and trying to cut what are the needs of the affected population and attempting to provide them

with those managerial needs. principally, this point because of the weather conditions, that would be shelter. we are not taking anything out with those, what we are day as it's all about collaboration and team effort, we are working with a small ngo from france who are bringing in tents and blankets and sleeping bags and our plan is to rendezvous with them on wednesday, having ascertained to those most in need and then we will start the distribution efforts. once we have people on the ground, we will then fly and more emergency shelter from france. the biggest challenge, i think, which is kind of been the current team, through what had been hearing this morning, is the risk of secondary hazards, and my experience, once that tectonic activity starts it takes 0ur europe correspondent jessica parkerjoins us from brussels now to talk about the co—ordinated aid response from the eu. what resources are they sending? well, basically what has been happening is at the request of turkey, the eu triggered what is

known as its civil protection mechanism, and that means eu member states and other countries were part of that scheme clubbed together and look at what help they can provide. the latest update before this morning from the eu is 27 search and rescue and medical teams are heading to turkey, including over 1000 rescue workers and 70 search and rescue workers and 70 search and rescue dogs, from 19 european countries. what i'm told is that some of those teams are in country and getting to those affected areas, others are not yet, but as you have been reflecting this morning that as well, time is so crucial here to get those teams on the ground as quickly as possible. a huge logistical challenges with that. one other thing the eu has offered have been asked to help with is providing with asked to help with is providing with a quality satellite images through its copernicus satellite system, and what that allows the authorities to do is look at high quality mapping

pictures and work out some of those worst affected areas, particularly harder to areas as well. that is turkey. syria is a more complicated situation, logistically and politically in terms of getting help there. in politically in terms of getting help there. . politically in terms of getting help there. , ., ., there. in terms of longer term it, what might _ there. in terms of longer term it, what might the — there. in terms of longer term it, what might the eu _ there. in terms of longer term it, what might the eu do? _ there. in terms of longer term it, what might the eu do? a- there. in terms of longer term it, what might the eu do? a good i what might the eu do? a good question- _ what might the eu do? a good question. there _ what might the eu do? a good question. there seri _ what might the eu do? a good question. there seri has i what might the eu do? a good question. there seri has not . question. there seri has not requested help through the civil protection mechanism, but the eu has tried to deliver help through

existing agencies on the tried to deliver help through existing agencies on the ground. tried to deliver help through existing agencies on the ground. i think we will hear more about that as the time goes on, the picture becomes clearer and they need to change in terms of giving people somewhere to stay. conditions in somewhere to stay. conditions in some of these areas, weather conditions, are extremely challenging, so there will be a switch to a focus on that, but also for help in syria it is quite complicated because there is a mix of areas controlled by government or rebel forces and then the eu does not even recognise president assad as the leader of syria, because, they say, of the bloodshed he has caused during the ongoing civil war. but lots of countries are eager to show they are ready to help, but delivering that health can be quite complicated. —— but delivering that help can be quite complicated. earlier, our middle east correspondent anna foster, who was in turkoglu, close

to the epicentre, told us more. i have been trying to travel closer to the epicentre, i started moving towards the city this morning over the mountains, and one of the problems i discovered is it is enormously difficult to actually get to the epicentre, because roads through the mountains, the main highway has been closed. it stands on pillars, it's raised off the ground, and they are concerned it's structurally unsafe, so all of the rescue teams i was surrounded by, the turkish red crescent, military units there, police, ambulances, everything you could need, and all of it is stuck in a huge trafficjam on the way through the mountains, because at the same time as they are trying to go in, people are trying to leave this area. you can see the devastation increases as you get closer and closer to the epicentre. i would say at least 50% of the buildings of the city i went through this morning, if they had not collapsed already, they clearly

were structurally unsafe. you can see them listing to one side or the pillars that hold them up were bent or twisted. there was still rescue operations going on there, no mobile phone signal, you can see people trying to get things like fuel and water and many of them trying to leave. i'm on a highway now, and even the roads are twisted and broken, large cracks that have opened up in some places. that is adding to the traffic problems. basically, people who want to leave here at the moment, it is proving extremely difficult. and, anna, we can see the clear blue skies behind you. at this time of year, that means freezing temperatures overnight. that clearly is making things very difficult, both for anyone who might have survived and still be trapped, and for the rescue effort as well. you're right, the weather has been a real problem.

it is bitterly cold. the reason i'm sitting in the car to talk to you, you can probably see by the way my hair is moving, it's extraordinarily windy. they had snowstorms at the start of the week, and last night there was freezing rain through much of the night. if you think of these rescuers, who in many cases are standing on top of these unstable, unsteady piles of rubble, often big sheets of masonry at an angle, if you think that the rain is pouring down, it makes it incredibly difficult for them to do theirjob, stand up, let alone try and take down and find survivors and bodies. they are finding many bodies under the wreckage as well. so, you're right, the weather conditions are making things even more difficult, notjust for the rescuers, but for the people who may well still be trapped under there, and purely from the number

of collapsed buildings that i have seen, it is impossible, i would say, at this stage, to really calculate the extent of this, when you see all the apartment blocks like i did yesterday that had 12 stories, completely collapsed, there might have been perhaps 100 people in there, the hotel owner i was talking to in the early hours of this morning in the pitch dark, he was telling me he thought there were 1a people in his hotel. seven of them, he said, had already died. he was desperately hoping that people had survived, but it feels like the conditions at the moment are just making that even more difficult. details are emerging of a cabinet reshuffle, some names have been heavily tipped to get certain jobs. political correspondent iain watson

is in downing street. what can you tell us not about the reshuffle but the reorganisation? let's begin with that. yes, we expect several departments to be reorganised, new departments to be reorganised, new departments to b— departments to be created, most of the changes — departments to be created, most of the changes around _ departments to be created, most of the changes around the _ departments to be created, most of the changes around the business i the changes around the business department, it will be split into its component parts, so we are expecting to see one of its responsibilities, energy, for example, that should be a separate department of energy security. rishi sunak promised during the leadership campaign, is unsuccessful campaign, he promised two things, a department of energy and energy independence by the 20a0s, and were going to see that. what it means in practice, we have yet to see, will it mean that his own personal opposition to wind farms will be more likely to happen?

that will be one of the component parts. international trade is currently a separate department, that will become part of the business department, and something else which rishi sunak has long been in favour of is a separate department for science, in favour of is a separate department forscience, innovation and technology, he wants britain to be the new silicon valley, at the forefront of technology, so that will be a separate department. elsewhere, that means consequently the department for culture, media and sport will be a bit more emaciated, slimmed down, losing its responsibilities for digital, for example, but the controversial 0nline safety bill, remember there are concerns among conservative mps that it would dampen down free speech, it is still going through the house of commons, and as far as we are aware, it will stay with the dcms. but usually with reshuffles, you end up with winners and losers, sometimes there is political bad blood, but i think we are seeing a

job creation scheme here, so it could be more people get on board the rishi sunak bandwagon, if you like, and he will find places for some people who he wants to keep on board, and they will get a department of their own. there may be changes in thejunior ranks, but the thing that really spark this off, of course, is the need for a new conservative party chairman, following the departure of nadhim zahawi, who breached the ministerial code over his tax affairs, and we expect to see a new chairman announced, and we think that is likely to be former trade minister greg hands. iain likely to be former trade minister greg hands-— greg hands. iain, thank you very much indeed. _ the final sentencing hearing for david carrick, the serial rapist who was a metropolitan police officer for 20 years, is under way at southwark crown court. carrick has pleaded guilty to 85 offences against 12 women, including a8 rapes, as well as charges of sexual assault and false imprisonment. helena wilkinson is live

outside the court. first, good morning, the sentencing remarks by thejudge, mrsjust first, good morning, the sentencing remarks by the judge, mrs just as cheaper grub were meant to begin at 10:30am this morning, there is a slate delay in court, but we have colleagues in the courtroom who have told us that some of the victims are in the courtroom and their families, sitting behind the glass dock, where we are expecting david carrick to be brought up into that doc from the cells to be sentenced today for his crimes, which spanned 17 years, a serving metropolitan police officer at the time, in his work he was out protecting the public, but behind the scenes he was committing the most appalling crimes, and yesterday, as you say, the first day of this sentencing hearing, and we

had graphic and harrowing details, many of which we cannot report, given the nature of them, but we heard from the prosecutor who said that of those 85 offences, 71 were of serious sexual offending. the prosecutor also said it didn't matter to david carrick who his victims were, old, young, but they were all vulnerable in their own way. we also heard the full details of what he did, so we knew about the offences, of course, after he pleaded guilty, but we had those offences laid bare in court yesterday. just to give you some examples of what we heard, in one incident, one woman said that she tried to leave his home but he stopped her, he put a black handgun to her head. she didn't know whether it was a real firearm or not, but she said that she was frozen at the

time. we also heard that he falsely imprisoned a number of his victims, and one woman, on one occasion, she had ordered a jumper, we heard in court, david carrick had told her that she shouldn't have ordered it, he then put her in a small cupboard under his stairs, he made her stripped naked every time he did it, and he would keep her in there, and he decided when she was brought out. on another occasion, he stopped one of the women from speaking to her son for a year. we also heard that he brandished a knife at one victim and slashed her work sheds. terrible, terrible details of what he did to his 12 victims, and we also heard as well, a victim personal statement, statements that were prepared by women, those who wanted to provide them, to give the court, thejudge, carrick himself,

an idea of the trauma that he has caused to those women, and again, the destruction that he has left behind. 0ne the destruction that he has left behind. one woman described how when she met carrick, that from that night, she had met evil. we also heard from another woman who said that she was terrified about calling the police afterwards, just in case an officer was sent like carrick. and many of the women talked about the fact that they couldn't trust men any more. so we heard about the trauma that carrick has caused to his 12 victims yesterday, and some, as i say, are in the courtroom here at southwark crown court. we are just waiting for the sentencing hearing to begin, as i say, a slight delay to the hearing, but it will be televised, so we will be able to bring you some of the sentencing remarks. again, some of them will no doubt be graphic in nature, so we

have to be careful in terms of which bits we bring you, but as soon as that sentencing hearing begins, we will let you know. helena wilkinson, thank you very much. yes, as she was saying we will bring you that sentencing here on the bbc news channel after 11. now, we have news to bring you on the deaths of the head teacher of epsom college, emma patterson, his seven—year—old daughter and her husband george patterson. their bodies were discovered early on sunday morning in a house in the grounds of the school. bbc news understands that surrey police are investigating the deaths as a murder—suicide. it is believed george patterson killed his wife and daughter before killing himself. the force is due to give more information today. she was the first female head teacher of epsom college

and has been praised for her dedication and inspirational leadership. her daughter wasjust seven years old, so surrey police are investigating the deaths as a murder—suicide, they believe he killed his wife and daughter before killing himself. the energy giant bp has reported record profits for last year, driven by surging oil and gas prices because of the war in ukraine. bp made £23 billion in 2022, more than double the total in the previous year. i spoke to our business correspondent nina warhurst, who put these figures into context regarding the cost of living crisis. when you look at the numbers, profits of £23 billion in 2022,

more than double the amount the year before, and the doubling is over the same period. the average household has doubled their energy bills, and that's when you incorporate government support into that. that contrast between how much they're making and how much more we are paying seems to many people unfair. huge caveats within that, these are global profits, not all of that money is taxable in the uk. on top of that, big energy firms need to make money, they need to reinvest and be profitable for pension schemes, for example, and in order to invest in green energy. but still questions around fairness. labour this morning saying the system of a windfall tax, an extra levy that the government is imposing on energy companies for this unprotected extraordinary profit they're making, they say the system is not working, that more should be generated from that revenue. so bp estimate that, for 2022, 678 million or so will be put

towards the windfall tax, but that makes up less than 3% of their overall global profits. and shell last week announced their biggest profits in their 115—year history, 32 billion, and just 111 million paid in windfall taxes. the tuc has said this morning this will make hard pressed families feel like cash machines, labour saying a proper system needs to be reintroduced, and we are talking every week at the bbc to families who are literally having to sit this winter out in the dark, in the cold, because they cannot afford to pay their energy bills, and there are these caveats that global companies pay global taxes instead of in the uk, but still, it does not sit easily with those at home watching this morning and thinking they are doubling their profits as i am doubling my energy bills. new figures suggest that some of the uk's most vulnerable households have failed to claim up to £50 million of government money to help with their energy bills. according to data seen

exclusively by the bbc, more than 750,000 vouchers for pre—payment meters were not redeemed during october and november. 0ur cost of living correspondent colletta smith explains. extra money for each household's energy bills. that was the promise. if you pay by direct debit in britain, it's been £66 a month knocked off the bills or credited to your account. but the two million households with a physical pre—payment meter have been sent vouchers in the post or by email each month that then need to be taken to a local shop to be credited onto the meter. figures seen by the bbc from paypoint and the post office show that 81% of vouchers for october and november were cashed before they expired, which leaves more than 750,000 uncashed vouchers for october and november before the expiry date passed this weekend.

but it's not too late. if you haven't received your voucher or haven't cashed it in time, then contact your energy supplier and ask for it to be reissued. citizens advice say that their data shows the main reason for people not cashing an energy voucher is simply that it hasn't arrived and energy firms need to do more. there are some people who have been told to check their email to see if it's in there and unfortunately they're not online, they don't use an email account regularly, so they can't use that method. and there seem to be many people where their address data is incorrect, so itjust hasn't landed on their doorstep. what we would like to see is that the energy firms make it really easy for people to contact them, to ask them to re—issue the voucher so people can use it to stay on supply. energy companies are already in hot water for the way they treat pre—payment customers, and now it seems some of the most vulnerable are out of pocket

at a time they need it most. since the weather has turned colder, we have seen a kind of increase in the number of people taking the vouchers and obviously more quickly. so obviously this help is really, really needed by a lot of people across the country and obviously we can assume that they're very, very keen to redeem it as soon as they get their hands on it. but it's that first step of getting their hands on vouchers, which hasn't been as easy as it should be for many. coletta smith, bbc news. lots more tweets coming in and around the story, ruth says she has been getting the warm home discount for years now, but now she is not eligible because her flat for years now, but now she is not eligible because herflat is for years now, but now she is not eligible because her flat is too small. i rely on the money, the size of the flat has nothing to do with the amount of electricity i use. quite a few people talking about having previously got that discount not qualifying for it this year.

jason says, i rang the department for work and pensions about when i was getting the warm homes discount, and the person said, why did i needed as i was getting money from the government? but that is not the point, says jason. martins is one of the biggest problems with those vouchers that we heard about in the report was, over christmas, because of the royal mail strike, and some people do not have bank statements or council tax bills, and they need them to use their vouchers, says martin, for example, with british gas. and one more here from sue and clive, sorry, this is a different story, i beg your pardon, this one says, your discussions about prepayment meters, my vulnerable aduu prepayment meters, my vulnerable adult child lives in semi supported living provision, there are smart meters to the flat, the child has

not been able to log on to the metres, she says the energy help goes on to the metre automatically but he has to login in order to switch the money from the electric to the gas, where it is needed. due to the gas, where it is needed. due to his difficulties, he cannot do that, and the provider will not talk to me about it. thank you for sending in those comments. you can get in touch about any of those stories on twitter. thousands of nurses in england are taking part in a second consecutive day of strike action today. the government has refused to re—open pay talks with union leaders despite pleas from hospital bosses. the health secretary, steve barclay, said more than 80,000 appointments and 11,000 operations were cancelled as a result of strikes by nurses and ambulance workers yesterday. strike action by postal workers next thursday has been called off following a legal challenge by royal mail. staff staged several strikes at the end of last year, but the communication workers union said it had been advised

against fighting the case. royal mail said the cancelled strikes would mean "relief" for customers. a trial involving scrapping return train tickets in order to make fares simpler is to be extended. the rail company lner trialled only selling single tickets after customers said that they found the ticket—buying process complicated. under the trial, a single is always half the cost of a return. the government said such reforms could provide better value for passengers. let's get more on this with our business reporter ben king. hello to you, ben. so, are we to take it, given that the trial is being extended, that the train companies and the government think it is working well for customers? well, what we have at the moment is a trail from the government, there will be a speech later where mark harper will unveil his strategy for the future of the railways, and this

is one of the more eye—catching measures in it, and what we know is that the lner operator, which runs the east coast line up to edinburgh, is going to extend a trial which gets rid of the return tickets on that line, and if you want to make a return journey, that line, and if you want to make a returnjourney, you buy a that line, and if you want to make a return journey, you buy a single one way and a single the other. it is extending it from three stations, currently king's cross, leeds, newcastle, edinburgh, and we understand it will be extended across the rest of the network. that is understood to have gone very well, it simplifies the ticketing procedure, which is currently extremely complicated. the rail delivery group estimates that a 55 million tickets across british railways, clearly very complicated, and we understand that if this goes well, and it is believed to have gone well, there is a strong chance they will roll it out across the rest of the railways, but as yet we will have to wait until this evening to find out the full details. due will have to wait until this evening to find out the full details.- to find out the full details. one of the complaints — to find out the full details. one of the complaints we _ to find out the full details. one of the complaints we hear— to find out the full details. one of the complaints we hear from i to find out the full details. one of

the complaints we hear from raill the complaints we hearfrom rail passengers over and over again is that, actually, it isn't good value for money, sometimes they cannot get a seat or a decent service, even though they have paid a huge amount of money for a ticket. there are lots of other issues to be addressed when it comes to rail travel in the uk. . ., , ., ~ ., uk. there certainly are. i think for a lot of travellers, _ uk. there certainly are. i think for a lot of travellers, the _ uk. there certainly are. i think for a lot of travellers, the strikes i uk. there certainly are. i think for a lot of travellers, the strikes and | a lot of travellers, the strikes and the reliability problems we have seenin the reliability problems we have seen in recent years will be one of the big issues. one of the things the big issues. one of the things the government is going to announce to address this problem is what they call great british railways, a body that will bring track, trains and fares altogether under a single managing organisation, an idea announced by borisjohnson in 2021, but it was not clear it would survive to the new regime of rishi sunak, but we understand the transport secretary will confirm that it will be part of their plans as a guiding mind, they say, to coordinate the network, so we will see if that improves the situation for passengers.

see if that improves the situation for passengers-— see if that improves the situation for passengers. ben, thank you very much. for passengers. ben, thank you very much- iten — for passengers. ben, thank you very much. ben king. _ detectives investigating the disappearance of nicola bulley are focusing their efforts on a river path as they continue the search. the a5—year—old was last seen walking her dog in st michael's on wyre in lancashire 11 days ago. a team of specialist divers are searching the river. 0ur correspondent dave guest gave us the latest from st michael's on wyre a short time ago. that search is going to get under way again, moving into day 11 now, and ahead of that private search team, using that sonar equipment that danny savage was talking about, we were talking to him earlier, he says in 25 years in this business, this is one of the most baffling cases he has come across. he said the police searched the immediate area of that bench, the bench were her phone was found, still connected to a work call and the dog near to the bench. he said they searched that area which is where you would expect if she had fallen and she would have been there on that first day.

they found nothing. his team, using their advanced equipment, which can apparently pick up everything from sticks and stones on the riverbed, they have searched an area of the river and come up with nothing. he believes today could be a crunch point to either find something or perhaps even say categorically she is not in there. he has said he is confident his equipment means if nicola is in the river, then they will find her. if she is not, that opens up a whole load of other questions, but the heart of this, her partner paul and two little girls who are desperate for some concrete news about what has happened to her. she set off, dropped the children at school on the friday morning, went for a walk with the dog and disappeared within that ten minute window, no one has seen her since. police are asking for dashcam footage, anyone who may be passing on the main road here, who was out on friday 27th of january, anyone who may have seen her after about 9:20 on that friday morning. in the meantime, the wait for news continues for nicola bulley�*s family. some news coming from the united

nations, unicef, the children's fund, fears thousands of children may have been killed in north—west syria as a result of yesterday's earthquakes. un aid agencies are saying access to syria is extremely difficult, they say they would welcome what they call all modalities to get aid into the north—west of syria following the earthquake, which they describe as a hammer blow for the area. unicef fears thousands of children may have been killed. continuing coverage of those rescue efforts in syria and across turkey following those earthquakes yesterday here for you all day at bbc news. right now, let's look at the weather forecast with carol. the weather was fairly quiet today, but through tomorrow across north—west scotland, very strong winds. today, the wind is fairly light, a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine across

england and wales, mist and fog lifting, and a weather front moving southwards out of scotland and northern ireland, and behind it we will see a return to some sunshine. this weather front could still produce some spots of rain across southern scotland, north—west england and the south of northern ireland before it moves away. tonight, under clear skies, temperatures falling away rapidly, mist and fog patches forming, dense in places, and freezing, and under clear skies in the north—east of scotland, a touch of frost. during the course of wednesday, after a dry start for england and wales, we lose the mist and fog slowly, but in the a band of rain and squally winds, up to 75 mph, potentially damaging.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11.00am... the second day of the sentencing hearing for former metropolitan police officer david carrick gets under way today. he is being sentenced for a9 offences against 12 women over two decades. more than 5,000 people are now known to have died in the earthquakes which struck turkey and syria. the world health organization estimates millions are affected by the quakes. the prime minister is expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle this morning, with some names already heavily tipped to get certain jobs. bp announces record profits of £23 billion — the second energy giant to report the highest profits in its history.

the final sentencing hearing for david carrick, the serial rapist who was a metropolitan police officer for 20 years, is under way at southwark crown court. carrick has pleaded guilty to 85 offences against 12 women, including a8 rapes, as well as charges of sexual assault and false imprisonment. 0ur correspondent helena wilkinson is outside the court. just tell us what is happening today. just tell us what is happening toda . ~ , . ., today. well, the sentencing hearing was meant to _ today. well, the sentencing hearing was meant to get _ today. well, the sentencing hearing was meant to get under— today. well, the sentencing hearing was meant to get under way - today. well, the sentencing hearing was meant to get under way at i today. well, the sentencing hearing. was meant to get under way at 10.30 this morning. thejudge, on the first day yesterday, had said she would be back here to begin his

sentencing remarks at 10.30. there is a slight delay. we think it is a technical delay. so we are not sure when it will get under way. but the courtroom is packed. we've got colleagues inside the courtroom who have told us that some of the victims, some of carrick�*s 12 victims, some of carrick�*s 12 victims, are in court to see the man who committed the most appalling offences sentenced today. yesterday, we heard a graphic and harrowing testimony. we heard that full details of what he did to these 12 women. because carrick had pleaded guilty, we did not have a trial. therefore, we had not before here had those full details. yesterday, those were laid out by the prosecutor, tom little kc. 0f those were laid out by the prosecutor, tom little kc. of the 85 offences that carrick committed, over a 17 year period while he was a

serving metropolitan police officer, the offences were committed while he was off duty. of the 85, 71, the prosecutor said, we are of serious sexual offending. he went on to say that carrick, he did not matter who his victim was, he chose older and younger women, his victim was, he chose older and youngerwomen, but his victim was, he chose older and younger women, but all of them were vulnerable in their own way. as well as the sexual offences, serious sexual offences, we heard many incidents which put the women in fear. in one incident, carrick brandished a knife at one of his victims and slashed her work clothes. in another incident, he put a black handgun to one of the women as she tried to leave his house. the victim went on to say that she didn't know whether that handgun was a realfirearm. but it made her freeze, she said. and then carrick said to her, you are not going, not leaving the house. we also heard

about the false imprisonment offences that carrick committed. 0ne offences that carrick committed. one woman, on multiple occasions, he word, after they had argued, put her in a small under stairs cupboard, and he would keep her there. you would communicate with her by whistling outside of that cupboard, and he made her stripped naked every time he did that. he also threatened the woman with a police baton, he sent her a photograph of his work issue firearm and said, remember i am the boss. very graphic testimony. and many details which we were unable to report because of how terrible the details were. and we also heard personal statements from the victims. those are statements that victims get the opportunity to right, if they want to, so they can tell thejudge and the right, if they want to, so they can tell the judge and the court, so the

offender can hear about the impact, the devastation that the person who committed the crimes has caused. we heard 11 statements from the 12 women read on their behalf by the prosecutor. just to give you one of those statements, one woman said when she met carrick, she met evil, and many of the women said they simply can't trust men any more, and, perhaps most damningly, a number of women said that they could not trust the police. as i say, the sentencing hearing, colleagues and court say that there is a slight delay at the moment, but we will bring it to you as soon as it starts. ~ ., ., ., , ., ,, starts. we are going to be taking some of that _ starts. we are going to be taking some of that sentencing - starts. we are going to be taking some of that sentencing live i starts. we are going to be taking| some of that sentencing live here starts. we are going to be taking i some of that sentencing live here on bbc news. the world health organization says that around 23 million people could be affected by yesterday's powerful earthquakes, in turkey and syria. a third earthquake hit central turkey early this morning, as the rescue operation continues across the region. more than 5,000 people are known to have died, with that number rising all the time.

these are the scenes live in southern turkey. freezing conditions are making it even harder to find those trapped under collapsed buildings, but international help is arriving in the region to bolster the search and rescue effort. you can see people there, trying to get through the rubble and find any survivors. across the border syria has been badly affected too, as efforts continue to free people trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. this video was filmed by the white helmets rescue group, which operates in rebel—held north—west syria. it shows a family, including a small child, trapped on the third floor of their partially—collapsed apartment block in afrin in the early hours of this morning.

in the same city, afrin, you can see another rescuer trying to free a child trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building. eventually, the child is pulled to safety. 0ne one of many rescue missions that will be taking place, one of many stories we will hear about as people escape that rubble. 0f stories we will hear about as people escape that rubble. of course, so many people affected. we are hearing numbers of those that have died increasing, and we will be covering that throughout the day, of course, as we get more and more information. 0ur correspondent azadeh moshiri reports on the overnight rescue operations. it's a race to save lives that

includes the smallest ones. syria's voluntary civil defence group, the white helmets, pulled ahmed out to safety. they say his family's home north of aleppo has been completely destroyed by the earthquake. syria was already torn apart by war. it is home to millions of refugees. the white helmets say ahmed is one of them. millions of people are reeling across the region from the horrors they've witnessed. translation: my wife is still. in there, my wife is still in there. one should never give up on hope, but most probably she died. the first 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit near the turkish city of gaziantep in the early hours of the morning. a second 7.5 quake then hit further north in the afternoon. millions of people across turkey, syria, lebanon, cyprus and israel, felt them.

now survivors are relying on emergency services to find them. but also on help from their neighbours, friends, and even strangers. this man tied a string to a water bottle and lowered it into the rubble for the survivors trapped beneath. translation: we have received several offers of international i aid for our country. offers of assistance from a5 countries, including nato and the european union, have reached us. emergency service teams have been deployed from around the world. they are now on the ground searching for bodies and offering food and shelter. and that help is essential. many are still missing. this young girl asks, "where is my mum?" some who have survived, now find themselves homeless.

these bonfires are what keep them warm during a biting winter. translation: we'll be | cold here until morning, freezing, getting wet. we've got no place to go, no place to stay. my god, we don't even have a bed. as the search for survivors continues, rescue teams have another task at hand — counting the dead in one of the biggest earthquakes to hit the region in decades. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. lets leave turkey and syria for the moment. details are emerging of a cabinet reshuffle being carried out by the prime minister this morning. there's also a big reorganisation of some government departments. let's talk to our political correspondent iain watson. a busy morning for the prime

minister?— a busy morning for the prime minister? , , ., , minister? yes, indeed. usually the reshuffle, minister? yes, indeed. usually the reshuffle. you _ minister? yes, indeed. usually the reshuffle, you move _ minister? yes, indeed. usually the reshuffle, you move government i reshuffle, you move government ministers around. yeah, that apartments themselves are being moved around, cut up, rearranged, especially the big departments like business, energy, industrial strategy, it is effectively being put into its constituent parts. so we now have a new business and international trade department, a kind of merger, if you like. the government minister in charge of international trade is now the new secretary of state, the new cabinet minister for that department, secretary of state, the new cabinet ministerfor that department, kemi badenoch, but there is now a new department for energy and what is called net zero. effectively there is a energy and climate change department. they used to be one of those in government until 2016, it has now been re—implemented, and they argue that is essential because of the war in ukraine on the need to move to energy independence, including a new focus on nuclear and

renewable energy. the person in charge of that is grant shapps, he was the person in charge of that very big industry i was talking about, business, energy and industrial strategy. about, business, energy and industrialstrategy. he about, business, energy and industrial strategy. he is being moved around. there are some of the changes. there is now a new science, innovation and technology department, something which rishi sunak has been very keen on. he wants to see britain at the forefront of science and innovation, artificial intelligence, britain becoming a new silicon valley. the person he has put in charge of that is a person that is to be in charge of culture, media and sport, michelle donovan. and there is now a new, if you like, slightly slimmed down culture, media and sport apartment, losing some responsibilities for digital, but also a new secretary of state, lucy frazer. changes around the cabinet table, but also changes in the whole structure of government as well. rishi sunak is keen to go on the front foot and show that as prime

minister he has tried to deliver on his priorities. the opposition would say that although the personnel and some departments have changed, people's priorities have been very much in trying to get waiting lists down in this health service and trying to get inflation down. they will question if it will achieve that. as one opposition politician put it, and it is by no means an original phrase, but trying to rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic. i think there will be different views about whether this will achieve what rishi sunak is trying to do, and achieve priorities he has put for himself in terms of getting inflation down, getting debt down and making the economy grow. from his point of view, it is a reshuffle, which i think it's quite interesting. usually, when prime ministers reshuffle their top teams, some people are really not too chuffed at being kept on the outside. it usually creates a bit of fuss. here, it is a bit of a job creation scheme. we have a new government departments, and that

might help bolster his position and get new people on board with new challenges and new responsibilities. back to turkey, following the earthquakes, with reports that around 5000 have died. let's speak now to 0xfam's turkey spokeswoman, meryam asla, who is in ankara. thank you forjoining us. what is the situation like where you are? well, i think you must have heard that the situation here is an incredibly bad situation that we are in. 0nly incredibly bad situation that we are in. only in turkey, close to a000 people have died already. and there

are ten provinces impacted by the earthquake. as you know, there were two consecutive earthquakes, and more than 200 aftershocks. and the search and rescue efforts are continuing, uninterrupted. the situation is very dire, because there is difficulty in accessing some of the areas. there are some areas which are easier to reach for search and rescue, but it is a race against time. and people need to be excavated, so we can save lives. 0ver a000 people have been found injured. and that is increasing by

the minute. and also the people are in dire need of shelter, food and water, power banks, electricity, and protection. and most of all people want to feel that there is care for them. there is a lot of help, there is a lot of effort. but people feel lonely, people feel let down. people feel that they need people to feel that they have people that care for

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you can see the devastation increases as you get closer and closer to the epicentre. i went through town this morning and i would say at least 50% of the buildings, if they had not collapsed already, they clearly were structurally unsafe. you can see them listing to one side, or the pillars that hold them up were bent or twisted. there was still rescue operations going on there, no mobile phone signal, you can see people trying to get things like fuel and water and many of them trying to leave. i'm on a highway now, towards gaziantep. and even those roads are twisted and broken, large cracks that have opened up in some places. that is adding to the traffic problems. basically, people who want to leave here at the moment, it is proving extremely difficult. we can see the clear blue skies behind you. at this time of year, that means

freezing temperatures overnight. that clearly is making things very difficult, both for anyone who might have survived and still be trapped, and for the rescue effort as well. you're right, the weather has been a real problem. it is bitterly cold. the reason i'm sitting in the car to talk to you, you can probably see by the way my hair is moving, it's extraordinarily windy. they had snowstorms at the start of the week and last night there was freezing rain through much of the night. if you think of these rescuers, who in many cases are standing on top of these unstable, unsteady piles of rubble, often big sheets of masonry at an angle, if you think that the rain is pouring down, it makes it incredibly difficult for them to do theirjob, to even stand up, let alone try and take down and find survivors and bodies. they are finding many bodies under the wreckage as well. so, you're right, the weather conditions are making things

even more difficult, notjust for the rescuers, but for the people who may well still be trapped under there, and purely from the number of collapsed buildings that i have seen, it is impossible, i would say, the stage, to really calculate the extent of this. when you see all the apartment blocks like i did yesterday that had 12 stories, completely collapsed, where rescuers thought there might have been perhaps 100 people in there. to the hotel owner i was talking to in the early hours as of this morning in the pitch dark it was telling me he thought there were 1a people in his hotel. seven of them he said had already died and in fact where we were there they brought out an eighth body. he was desperately hoping that people had survived, but it feels like the conditions at the moment are just making that even more difficult.

anna foster, who has been trying to make her way close to the epicentre of that quake. she will be continuing thatjourney. earlier, ibrahim haskologlu turkishjournalist, told us about the situation of people who are still trapped under the buildings which collapsed after the quakes. at the beginning, the people are suffering right now still. many people are under the buildings, and waiting for help. as you mentioned, i am planning to go to my hometown. people are still under the buildings, and waiting to rescue teams, and government resources. if you survive the building, the earthquakes, people are facing the

coldest day in the east of turkey. many people are facing freezing outside of turkey. as a journalist, people know me in turkey and they are sending to us videos, under the buildings. they have phones in the collapsed buildings. and they are waiting for help. they are sending us dresses, videos, some of them are sending voice messages, and we can do nothing. just to bring you some breaking news now, and police in surrey have given more details about the deaths of a head at an elite private school and her family, head at an elite private school and herfamily, emma pattison, he was a5, her39—year—old herfamily, emma pattison, he was a5, her 39—year—old husband, herfamily, emma pattison, he was a5, her39—year—old husband, george, and their seven—year—old daughter,

lettie were discovered in the early hours of yesterday on the grounds of the college. police believe the head teacher at one of the country's leading private schools was shot dead by her husband, before he took his own life with the same gun. some breaking news on those deaths at epsom college this morning. the bbc understands that emma pattison was killed in the family home of the grounds on epsom college. police think her husband also killed their daughter, lettie, before killing himself. the bbc also understands that emma pattison made a distressed call to family members late on saturday or in the early hours of sunday, that person went to the house in epsom. by the time they arrived, all three were dead. just bringing you that breaking news. well, i think we can go live to our correspondent... no, we are not able

to go live to our correspondence. just that breaking news. detectives investigating the disappearance of nicola bulley are focusing their efforts on a river path as they continue the search. the a5—year—old was last seen walking her dog in st michael's on wyre in lancashire 11 days ago. a team of specialist divers are searching the river, as our correspondent danny savage reports. yesterday morning, a new search team joined the hunt for nicola bulley — a team who had been contacted by her family to see if they could help. they are using an advanced sonar system which can map the riverbed. if the tragic truth is that nicola bulley is in the river, they are confident of success. i do believe she's in it, from the evidence we've got at the moment. i mean, everything is pointing to the river at the moment. and there's no — there doesn't seem to be a third party involved. this is the stretch of river where she went missing.

it's twisty, murky and in places quite deep. it's not an easy stretch of water to check and be sure they haven't missed something. her friends and family are grateful for everything being done here. at the moment, we just need a picture to start to form. i mean, peter's knowledge and expertise in this area, we're just really hoping that he will shed some light on whether he thinks she is in the river, or not. the circumstances surrounding nicky bulley�*s disappearance are barely believable. she vanished in a short window of time when she was out of sight of others. the hope is that this new phase of searching will give some answers to herfamily. danny savage, bbc news st michael's on wyre. let's return now to that news we just brought you. police in surrey, giving more details about the death of the head

at the elite private school and her family. emma pattison, he was a5, her husband, 39, george, their seven—year—old daughter, lettie were discovered at their home in the early hours of yesterday morning. joining is now is robin brant. you have more details of this really distressing case question not firstly, i want to stress that this information has come to is independent of surrey police. at the details that i have garnered in the last couple of hours to confirm, i'm afraid, what was suspected, that the police are treating this as a murder on a double murder, and then a suicide. they believe that george patterson, who was 39, a chartered accountant, shot his wife, emma, in the family home, which is on the grounds of epsom college. he then killed their daughter, lettie, he was only seven, and took his own life with the same weapon. i also

understand that in the time proceeding those events, late on saturday or early on sunday morning, police arrived at 1am on sunday morning, emma pattison made a distressed call to a member of her family. that person went to the family. that person went to the family home, in epsom, on the grounds of the college. by the time they got there, all three people were dead. now, i'm also told that george patterson has a gun licence. there was some kind of contact, a phone call, i understand, between surrey police and him in the days preceding these events. it was a routine matter, i understand, because he need to update his gun licence, because they had recently moved home. so there has been some kind of contact. surrey police has referred itself to the independent 0ffice referred itself to the independent office of police conduct. they have confirmed they received that this morning. sorry police see that as a routine matter. we don't know exactly what it is in regard to. i'm

also told that postmortem examinations are expected to take place later this week. awful confirmation that it is what many suspected, a double murder of a a5—year—old head teacher, a woman referred to yesterday as a wonderful teacher, distinguished career, her seven—year—old daughter, and then the man who police believe did it took his own life.— the man who police believe did it took his own life. thank you, robin brant. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol. hello again. the weather is fairly quiet today, but as we go through tomorrow across north—west scotland we're looking at very strong winds. today, the winds fairly light. we've got a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine across much of england and wales. any mist and fog slowly lifting. we've got a weather front moving southwards out of scotland and northern ireland and behind it we'll see a return to some sunshine. but this weather front could still produce a few spots

of rain across southern scotland, north—west england and the south of northern ireland before it moves away. tonight, under clear skies temperatures will follow a rapidly. we'll have some mist and fog patches forming, quite dense in places, some freezing. under clear skies across the north—east of scotland we could welljust see a touch of frost. it's during the course of wednesday, after a dry start for england and for wales, we'll lose the mist and fog slowly. but it's what's happening in the north—west — we've got a band of heavy rain and squally winds, potential gusts up to 75mph, so potentially damaging.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the second day of the sentencing hearing for former metropolitan police officer david carrick gets underway today. he has pleaded guilty to 85 offences against 12 women.

more than 5,000 people are now known to have died in the earthquakes which struck turkey and syria. rescuers are racing to save people trapped beneath the rubble. the prime minister announces a cabinet reshuffle and restucturing of some government departments, with greg hands replacing nadhim zahawi as tory chairman. bp announces record profits of £23 billion, more than double that of the previous year. sport now and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. former newcastle player christian act due has been rescued from under the rubble of the earthquake in turkey. he now plays for a turkish side and was in one of the areas

closest to the centre of the earthquake. he is 31 and a former gunn yang international, he played for newcastle between 2016—21. the fa cup is back tonight. wrexham and its hollywood owners werejust seconds away from one of the great fa cup stories last weekend. tonight the two sides meet again in the replay. 5,000 wrexham fans will make the trip to south yorkshire. we don't know if ryan reynolds or rob michael henry will be amongst them. stoppage time last sunday and non—league wrexham were on course for the fifth round. an fa cup upset and a hollywood story, but football brought a brutal twist. brought a brutaltwist. commentator: the have brought a brutaltwist. commentator: they have levelled. _ brought a brutaltwist. commentator: they have levelled. astonishing. - they have levelled. astonishing. sheffield united _ they have levelled. astonishing.

sheffield united scored - they have levelled. astonishing. sheffield united scored late i they have levelled. astonishing. sheffield united scored late on, | they have levelled. astonishing. i sheffield united scored late on, 3-3 sheffield united scored late on, 3—3 drawer means tonight they start again. a replay at bramall lane where the championship side now has some advantage. wrexham faced the same task in the third round and one at coventry. same task in the third round and one at coventry-— at coventry. logic tells you, of course, at coventry. logic tells you, of course. that — at coventry. logic tells you, of course, that our— at coventry. logic tells you, of course, that our great - at coventry. logic tells you, of i course, that our great opportunity was still in the game at home, but we went to coventry and played really well on the day and we will be going there to make it a cup tie. is ryan reynolds rang in again? i don't know, he hasn't said. whether ryan does come, sometimes we find out very late ourselves.— out very late ourselves. everything that is happening _ out very late ourselves. everything that is happening is _ out very late ourselves. everything that is happening is so _ out very late ourselves. everything that is happening is so good i out very late ourselves. everything that is happening is so good for. that is happening is so good for them, — that is happening is so good for them, for— that is happening is so good for them, for the national league, for football_ them, for the national league, for football in — them, for the national league, for football in general, disney, the documentary. it drives me on, i want to heat— documentary. it drives me on, i want to beat them — documentary. it drives me on, i want to beat them because of that 100%. the cameras have been rolling since the fourth qualifying round, all

wrexham cup games are being shown in the us. ryan reynolds's wife watched the us. ryan reynolds's wife watched the draw at the racecourse and saw the draw at the racecourse and saw the co—owners because my crippling anxiety. now they are going back for seconds. winter night and they will host spurs in round five. wrexham are the last non—league team left in the cap, but this match is global interest. in california and north wales, they hope for great things from the sequel. plenty more drama head, no doubt. richard pyrah is the latest person to withdraw from the disciplinary process relating to allegations of historic racism at yorkshire. andrew gale also said injune he was not willing to engage in the process. seven individuals were charged with

only michael vaughan is now set to appear at a public hearing in london next month. yorkshire and the individuals were charged over allegations made by azeem rafiq. the last remaining coach from eddie jones? does mcgrane believe the england rugby union set up with richard cockerill set to join montpelier after the six nations. steve borthwick succeeded eddie jones and has of kevin sinfield into his team as he attempts to rebuild the site before the world cup in september. england lost their six nations opener to scotland this weekend and ian peel is expected to join the coaching staff. that is all to sport for now. the who says millions of people have

been affected by the strong earthquake in syria and turkey. more than 5,000 people are known to have died with that number rising all of the time. let's speak to the corresponded in turkey for the german financial newspaper. thank you forjoining us. this is a huge search and rescue operation at the moment. let's look at this long—term plan. there will be so many businesses affected. we are hearing around 5,000 buildings, just looking at the structural side of things, that have been torn down. exactly, the cost of — that have been torn down. exactly, the cost of renovation _ that have been torn down. exactly, the cost of renovation and - that have been torn down. exactly, the cost of renovation and to i that have been torn down. exactly, \ the cost of renovation and to repair everything will be immense. early estimations vary between 50-100,000,000,000 us dollars. estimations vary between 50—100,000,000,000 us dollars. many roads are destroyed due to the earthquake. even airports had to suspend services because the runways were destroyed by the earthquake.

the big ports in south—east turkey, there is a huge fire that broke out. nobody knows when the sport will be able to operate again and many shipping companies have suspended service and shipping to that port until further service and shipping to that port untilfurther notice service and shipping to that port until further notice because they simply don't know when there will be able to return to that court. you are in ankara — able to return to that court. you are in ankara at _ able to return to that court. you are in ankara at the _ able to return to that court. you are in ankara at the moment. how things looking where you are? directly after the earthquake the turkish government sent out an alarm on level four, which means the government originally asked for international help. more than 45 countries offered to send search and

rescue teams, but also israel offered to set up a field hospital in the disaster affected areas. there is grace for the government for the immediate and professional reaction, but also criticism coming from the opposition in turkey that the disaster authority were not yet able to send their teams to some of the most affected areas in the south—east. the most affected areas in the south-east— the most affected areas in the south-east. , ., south-east. there is a coming in, countries are _ south-east. there is a coming in, countries are pledging _ south-east. there is a coming in, countries are pledging eight - south-east. there is a coming in, countries are pledging eight to i countries are pledging eight to turkey and syria, but this economically is devastating for the country. we saw the currency hit an all—time low. country. we saw the currency hit an all-time lova— all-time low. exactly, it is. turkey has been hit _ all-time low. exactly, it is. turkey has been hit by — all-time low. exactly, it is. turkey has been hit by very _ all-time low. exactly, it is. turkey has been hit by very high - all-time low. exactly, it is. turkey| has been hit by very high inflation. turkey is an emerging country and will need a lot of money to repair everything that has been destroyed by the earthquake. probably in may there are going to be elections in

turkey and of course the government was trying to attract voters for their political programme, but now they have to face a whole new challenge with his huge earthquake and it is disastrous and very expensive. to and it is disastrous and very “pensive-— and it is disastrous and very exensive. ., . ., ,. expensive. to search and rescue teams are _ expensive. to search and rescue teams are being _ expensive. to search and rescue teams are being sent _ expensive. to search and rescue teams are being sent from - expensive. to search and rescue teams are being sent from a - expensive. to search and rescue - teams are being sent from a number of countries. are we seeing any economic aid being pledged at the moment is? this is an emerging country, a country that is struggling and has a number of economical problems. are they asking for economical help at the moment or are they focusing on the search and rescue? for are they focusing on the search and rescue? ., ., ~' , are they focusing on the search and rescue? ., ., ~ , , ., ., rescue? for now, turkey is more or less focusing _ rescue? for now, turkey is more or less focusing on _ rescue? for now, turkey is more or less focusing on the _ rescue? for now, turkey is more or less focusing on the search - rescue? for now, turkey is more or less focusing on the search and - less focusing on the search and rescue operations and humanitarian help for those who are affected, in the collapsed houses in the affected

areas, but certain governments offered financial help. for example the government of germany, they sent money to ngos operating on the turkish and syrian side of the border, which has also been very much affected by the earthquake. turkey is not directly asking for financial aid, turkey is not directly asking for financialaid, more turkey is not directly asking for financial aid, more humanitarian aid, but many governments are sending money to organisations operating in this area.— sending money to organisations operating in this area. thank you ever so much. _ thousands of nurses in england are taking part in a second consecutive day of strike action today. the government has refused to re—open pay talks with union leaders, despite pleas from hospital bosses. the health secretary, steve barclay, said more than 80,000 appointments and 11,000 operations were cancelled as a result of strikes by nurses and ambulance workers yesterday.

strike action by postal workers next thursday has been called off following a legal challenge by royal mail. staff staged several strikes at the end of last year, but the communication workers union said it had been advised against fighting the case. royal mail said the cancelled strikes would mean "relief" for customers. a trial involving scrapping return train tickets in order to make fares simpler is to be extended. the rail company lner trialled only selling single tickets after customers said that they found the ticket—buying process complicated. under the trial, a single is always half the cost of a return. the government said such reforms could provide better value for passengers. let's return to the energy giant bp reporting record profits for last year, driven by surging oil and gas prices because of the war in ukraine.

bp made £23 billion in 2022, more than double the total in the previous year. i spoke to our business correspondent nina warhurst, who put these figures into context regarding the cost of living crisis. when you look at the numbers, profits of 23 billion, more than doubled the amount in the year before. the year before bp worked at a loss. they are i watering numbers. that doubling is over the same period that the average household has doubled their energy bills, that is when you corporate government support and to that, as well. that contrasting to how much they are making and how much more we are paying seems unfair to many people. there are huge caveats in that. these are global profits, so not all of that money is taxable in the uk. on top of that, big energy firms

need to make money, they need to reinvest to stay profitable, for their pension schemes, and to invest in green energy, but still questions around fairness. labour again saying around fairness. labour again saying a windfall tax, so an extra levy from the government, they said the system isn't working, that more should be generated from that revenue. bp estimate that for 2022, 670 8 million will be put towards the windfall tax, but that makes up less than 3% of the global profits. shell last week announced their biggest profits in 115 year history, 32 billion. just 111 paid in windfall tax. the da said this morning this will make hard pressed families feel like cash machines. labour saying that a proper windfall system needs to be introduced. we are talking every week to families

who are literally having to set this winter out in the dark, in the cold because they can't afford to pay their energy bills. yes to all of these caveats that global companies take global taxes instead of the uk, but still it doesn't sit easily with those at home watching this morning and thinking they are doubling their profits as i am doubling my energy bills. i can speak to will mathis, climate change and renewable energy reporter at bloomberg. you have been looking into the renewable investment of bp profits from the company is going towards green energy, especially the uk? well, it is hard to say what percentage of the profits are going to renewable energy in the uk, but bp did spend a record amount of

money on its businesses that aren't oil and gas, so that is renewables, but also other things like ev charging as they are trying to expand. charging as they are trying to exand. �*,., ., , charging as they are trying to exand. ~ ., , ., ., expand. apologies, we will have to come back to _ expand. apologies, we will have to come back to you _ expand. apologies, we will have to come back to you a _ expand. apologies, we will have to come back to you a little _ expand. apologies, we will have to come back to you a little bit - expand. apologies, we will have to come back to you a little bit later. | come back to you a little bit later. let's listen in to the sentencing at southwark crown court. we are bringing this to you on a slight delay. bringing this to you on a slight dela . ., ., ' , ., , delay. committed over17 years and ou delay. committed over17 years and you are _ delay. committed over17 years and you are serving _ delay. committed over17 years and you are serving police - delay. committed over17 years and you are serving police officer. | and you are serving police officer. some of those charges represent multiple offences. you have admitted at least 71 instances of sexual violence against 12 victims. you also took example of three of those women in brutal controlling and coercive relationships. these convictions represent a spectacular

downfall for a man charged with upholding the law and empowered to do so even to the extent of being authorised to bear a firearm in the execution of your duty. behind a public appearance of propriety and trustworthiness, you took monstrous advantage of women drawn into intimate relationships with you. you brazenly raped and sexually assaulted many women, some you barely knew. he behaved as if he were untouchable. you were bold and at times relentless, trusting that no victim would overcome her shame and herfear to report you. for nearly two decades you approved rights. but now a combination of those 12 women, by coming forward,

and your police colleagues by acting on their evidence have exposed you and brought you low. you have lost your liberty, yourjob and your status. you have to 4g the prospect of a difficult time in custody for many years. hejoined of a difficult time in custody for many years. he joined the metropolitan police in 2001. that put you in a unique position with exceptional powers to coerce and control. you will have sworn the oath taken by all police constables which includes the following promise, i will to the best of my power because the piece to be kept and preserved and prevents all offences against the persons and properties of her majesty's subjects and summarising the facts of the offences i will not use names so that none of the victims lose the

legal protection they are entitled to. you know who they are and so do they. nor is it necessary to repeat they. nor is it necessary to repeat the detailed recycle outlined by the kings council in court this week. certain themes emerge. firstly, this violent sexual offending against women commenced almost immediately after the peak —— she became a police constable, and she referred to your job police constable, and she referred to yourjob when offending. just over a year after gaining the office, while you were working in merton borough, he met a 20—year—old i will call tea in a bar. merton borough, he met a 20—year—old iwill call tea in a bar. we merton borough, he met a 20—year—old i will call tea in a bar. we invited her to a house—warming party which is said will be taking place at a flat nearby. you told her you with the safest person she could be with because you are a police officer.

she went with you reassured by this reasoning. there was no party. he held her against her will for hours. he raped her regina llhi and anally using violence to hold her down. when she struggled to put a black handgun to her head. it felt real... we will pull away from that. that was mrs justice we will pull away from that. that was mrsjustice cheema—grubb was mrs justice cheema—grubb adjourning was mrsjustice cheema—grubb adjourning the case of david carrick, the police officer who has pleaded guilty to 85 offences against 12 women including 48 rapes, as well as the actual charges of assault and imprisonment. let's cross now live tour correspondent helen wilkinson he is outside the court and can bring us more. we are going to hear some very difficult, terrible detail about what david carrick did to these 12 women. some of that detail is just

too terrible for us to report. let's go over what we just heard from mrs justice cheema—grubb, the sentencing judge. we have colleagues in the court room. david carrick are sitting in a glass top. some of his victims arejust a sitting in a glass top. some of his victims are just a number of feet behind him at the back of the courtroom. she is sentencing david carrick for 85 offences, 71 of them serious sexual offences. we heard that he began committing these offences very soon after he became a police officer. in her sentencing remarks in the last couple of moments, thejudge said remarks in the last couple of moments, the judge said that his case represents a spectacular downfall for a man charged with upholding the law. the judge went on to say that he took advantage of three of his victims in brutal

controlling and coercive relationships. yesterday we heard in court about the damage that he had done to his 12 victims and the continued trauma that they all faced. thejudge continued trauma that they all faced. the judge also continued trauma that they all faced. thejudge also has continued trauma that they all faced. the judge also has said so far in her sentencing remarks to david carrick, you behaved as if you were untouchable. you took monstrous advantage of women, drawn interpersonal relationships with them. again we are hearing very graphic details about what he did to these 12 women over a period of 17 years of offending, all the while he was a serving metropolitan police officer, but in his private life he was sexually assaulting these women. he is a serial rapist. today in court now thejudges he is a serial rapist. today in court now the judges going through her sentencing remarks. we expect that to take around an hour or and towards the end of first david

carrick will hand join —— david carrick will hand join —— david carrick will hand join —— david carrick will stand and be given his sentence for those 85 offences, the majority of them serious sexual offences against 12 of his victims. of course, we did have to leave those proceedings just because of some of the harrowing details that we are expecting to hear from the judge, such distressing details in that case. we will be staying live throughout the morning and getting those updates. bp made £23 billion in 2022, more than doubled the total in the previous year.

i can speak to will mathis now, climate change and renewable energy reporter at bloomberg. i was asking you about the percentage of these profits being invested into renewables. the?c percentage of these profits being invested into renewables. they are aoinu invested into renewables. they are auoin to invested into renewables. they are going to spend _ invested into renewables. they are going to spend more _ invested into renewables. they are going to spend more money - invested into renewables. they are going to spend more money on - invested into renewables. they are going to spend more money on oil| invested into renewables. they are . going to spend more money on oil and gas and there are also going to spend more money on low carbon investments, but what kind of low carbon investments as changing a bit from what i said in the past. they will focus more on things that are similar to what they already do, so biofuels, these gases that are made from organic matter, like agricultural waste. they will also do more recharging. they will still increase and how much they spend on

renewables, but they have decided it is a lower margin business and how much they spend on renewables, but they have decided it is a lower margin business than other things. it will be a relatively smaller part of their low carbon energy transition thought of spending. haifa transition thought of spending. how does bp's investment compared to shell, britain's other energy giant? it is somewhat similar in terms of the kind of things they were investing but bp has higher ambitions than shell, but similarly to shell they are realising the same things about renewables, it is a relatively low return business. one big difference is last week, shell said they spent a record amount of their renewables and low carbon business, but they weren't going to go it any more. a pair saying they

will by 2038 will be the majority of their investments. they have changed their investments. they have changed their targets in terms of that kind of spending and we will see if they stick to it. so far there are —— they are planning to do more than shell has committed to. is it enough. _ shell has committed to. is it enough, when _ shell has committed to. is it enough, when you _ shell has committed to. is it enough, when you look at the other side of things and so many people struggling with the cost of living crisis, some people going cold, staying intercoms this winter because they simply can't afford this huge hike in prices? does the industry think that these companies are doing enough with this investment?— investment? well, it is a complicated _ investment? well, it is a complicated question, i investment? well, it is a l complicated question, are investment? well, it is a - complicated question, are we investment? well, it is a _ complicated question, are we doing enough to reach climate targets? no. we are not on track to limit warming to 2 degrees and certainly not to hit the 1.5 degrees target that is

in the paris agreement. spending more and investing more in fossil fuels is a reflection of that. there's still is huge demand and it was declining demand probably these companies wouldn't be making as much of these investments. so it is a sign that the world is really off track. it is also a sign of russia and since they invaded ukraine, russian oil and gas, gas has stopped flowing, there is a risk to oil supplies, so they are getting a different message from governments that they were getting a year or two ago. there is more pressure to invest in oil and gas to bring down prices for consumers that are really hurting. prices for consumers that are really hurtinu. . ~ prices for consumers that are really hurtinu. ., ~ i. prices for consumers that are really hurtinu. . ~' ,, , prices for consumers that are really hurtinu. . ~ ,, , .

now it's time for a look at the weather with carol. hello again. for many of us today the weather is going to remain fairly settled. high pressure's in charge, especially in southern areas, so a lot of dry weather and a lot of sunshine here, but still one or two stubborn bits of mist and fog to clear. this weather front sinking south is a weak feature as it moves across southern scotland, northern ireland and into northern england, with the odd spot of rain in it, but behind it it will brighten up with top temperatures of 11 degrees. this evening and overnight, under clear skies for much of england and wales, the temperature will fall away. we're looking at a widespread frost and also some mist and fog patches forming more widely than last night. under clear skies across the north—east of scotland we could see some frost also in some sheltered glens. as we head on through the course of tomorrow we've got the mist and fog patches to lift. some of those will be stubborn, but there will be a lot of dry weather around. however, we've got an active weather front coming in across the north—west. that's going to bring in some heavy rain and it's going to be

accompanied by squally winds. the met office has a yellow weather warning out for western scotland with gusts of wind potentially up to 75mph, so some disruption is quite possible. these are our temperatures — up to ten degrees. that weather front coming into the north—west slides southwards during the course of thursday. colder airfollows in behind. as that weather front moves across southern areas it's not going to be much more than a band of cloud with a little bit of drizzle in it. behind it, a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine. the showers across scotland will be wintry above about 350 metres, but later in the day some of the heavier showers we could see some wintriness even at lower levels in the far north and it's going to feel colder. that cold won't last because, as we head into friday, this warm front crosses us introducing some milder conditions across our shores. as it does so, it's the warm front comes in, it will take cloud from the west towards the east and also some splashes of rain.

further south and east it will be dry after a cold start with some sunshine and temperatures up to 12 degrees in aberdeen, ten in norwich. from then on, as we head into the weekend, the mild weather remains with us. high pressure stays firmly in charge. things will be settled and our top temperature 11 or 12, possibly a 13 along the east coast.

this is bbc news. i#m frankie mccamley. the headlines at 12... sentencing is under way for former metropolitan police officer david carrick. he has pleaed guilty for 85 offences against 12 women over two decades. more than 5,000 people are now known to have died in the earthquakes which struck turkey and syria — rescuers are racing to save people trapped beneath the rubble. the prime minister announces a cabinet reshuffle and restucturing of some government departments — with greg hands replacing nadhim zahawi as tory chairman. and bp announces record profits of £23 billion pounds — the second energy giant to report the highest profits in its history.

the world health organization says that around 23 million people could be affected by monday's powerful earthquakes, in turkey and syria. the number of people known to have died has risen to more than 5,000 — with many more injured, and an unknown number still missing, potentially buried under collapsed buildings. the effort to rescue them, and care for survivors, is being hampered by two factors — harsh winter weather, and a series of powerful aftershocks. this map, from the us geological survey, shows the number of tremors wth a magnitude of more than 11.1, which have hit the region in the last 2a hours. you can see how they are concentrated on the area where the first huge tremor struck —

the 7.8 magnitude quake in gaziantep. huge number of people have been made homeless, and caring for them is also a priority. the international community is sending aid. across the border syria has been badly affected too — as efforts continue to free people trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. this video was filmed by the white helmets rescue group, which operates in rebel—held northwest syria. it shows a family, including a small child, trapped on the third floor of their partially collapsed apartment block in afrin in the early hours of this morning. and in the same city — afrin — you can see another rescuer trying to free a child trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building — — eventually the child is pulled to safety our correspondent azadeh moshiri reports on the overnight rescue operations

it's a race to save lives that includes the smallest ones. syria's voluntary civil defence group, the white helmets, pulled ahmed out to safety. they say his family's home north of aleppo has been completely destroyed by the earthquake. syria was already torn apart by war or. it is home to millions of refugees. the white helmets say ahmed is one of them. millions of people are reeling across the region from the horrors they've witnessed. translation: my wife is still. in there, my wife is still in there. one should never give up on hope, but most probably she died. the first 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit near the turkish city of gaziantep in the early hours

of the morning. a second 7.5 quake then hit further north in the afternoon. millions of people across turkey, syria, lebanon, cyprus and israel, felt them. now survivors are relying on emergency services to find them. but also on help from their neighbours, friends, and even strangers. this man tied a string to a water bottle and lowered it into the rubble for the survivors trapped beneath. translation: we have receivedj several offers of international aid for our country. offers of assistance from 45 countries, including nato and the european union, have reached us. emergency service teams have been deployed from around the world. they are now on the ground searching for bodies and offering food and shelter. and that help is essential.

many are still missing. this young girl asks, "where is my mum?" some who have survived, now find themselves homeless. these bonfires are what keep them warm during a biting winter. translation: we'll be cold here until morning, freezing, - getting wet. we've got no place to go, no place to stay. my god, we don't even have a bed. as the search for survivors continues, rescue teams have another task at hand — counting the dead in one of the biggest earthquakes to hit the region in decades. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. earlier, our middle east correspondent anna foster, who was in turkoglu close to the epicentre, told us more. i have been trying to travel closer to the epicentre, which is around the city of marash,

i started moving from 0smaniye this morning over the mountains. and one of the problems we discovered as it is enormously difficult to actually get to the epicentre, to marash, because roads through the mountains, the main highway has been closed. it stands on pillars, it's raised off the ground, and they are concerned it is structurally unsafe. so all of the rescue teams i'm surrounded by, the turkish red crescent, military units there, police, ambulances, everything you could need, and all of it is stuck in a huge trafficjam on the way through the mountains. because at the same time as they are trying to go in, people are trying to leave this area. you can see the devastation increases as you get closer and closer to the epicentre. i went through town this morning and i would say at least 50% of the buildings, if they had not collapsed already, they clearly were structurally unsafe. you can see them listing to one

side, or the pillars that hold them up were bent or twisted. there was still rescue operations going on there, no mobile phone signal, you can see people trying to get things like fuel and water and many of them trying to leave. i'm on a highway now, towards gaziantep. and even those roads are twisted and broken, large cracks that have opened up in some places. that is adding to the traffic problems. basically, people who want to leave here at the moment, it is proving extremely difficult.

the reason i'm sitting in the car to talk to you, you can probably see by the way my hair is moving, it's extraordinarily windy. they had snowstorms at the start of the week and last night there was freezing rain through much of the night. if you think of these rescuers, who in many cases are standing on top of these unstable, unsteady piles of rubble, often big sheets of masonry at an angle, if you think that the rain is pouring down, it makes it incredibly difficult for them to do their work, to even stand up, let alone try and take down and find survivors and bodies. they are finding many bodies under the wreckage as well. so, you're right, the weather conditions are making things even more difficult, notjust for the rescuers, but for the people who may well still be trapped under there, and purely from the number of collapsed buildings that i have seen, it is impossible, i would say, the stage, to really calculate the extent of this. when you see all the apartment blocks like i did yesterday that had 12 stories, completely collapsed, where rescuers thought there might have been perhaps 100 people in there. to the hotel owner i was talking to in the early hours as of this morning in the pitch dark

and he was telling me he thought there were 1a people in his hotel. seven of them he said had already died and in fact where we were there they brought out an eighth body. he was desperately hoping that people had survived, but it feels like the conditions at the moment are just making that even more difficult. let's speak now to zaina er—haim, a syrianjournalist based in london. tom bateman sent us this update. well, this is adana, as you say. but winter storm has caused significant problems right across the region, because what it's meant is it has been extremely difficult, both for rescue teams to get through the conditions that are already very, very bad. many roads are wrecked and ruined, particularly further

a lot of the survivors from this area are covered in blankets, i was talking to one woman whose daughter was on the second floor in this building. she was in tears, no word, has been up all night trying to find out what has happened to her daughter. she told me they have worked away down to the second floor but there is no news at all, she was telling me had to be due to leave the country to visit her daughters in germany and she said about the

devastating conversation she had to have with her grandchildren. no word about her daughter of the risk you work goes on. most of the city is relatively unscathed. there is a lot of anger and grief. slickwater fist of anger and grief. slickwater git the beginning, the people suffering right now are still suffering. many people are under the buildings, and are waiting to help. as you mentioned, i'm planning to go to my hometown. people are still under the buildings, and waiting for rescue

teams, and the government sources. if you survive the building, if you survive the earthquake, people are facing the coldest day in the turkey. many people are facing freezing outside of turkey. as a journalist, people know me in turkey, and they are sending videos under the buildings. the they have phones in the buildings, collapsed buildings, and they are sending addresses, videos, some of them are sending voice messages, and we can do nothing. many people around the world have

been affected. people in the uk are worried about their family and friends. peter harris has been speaking to a turkish restaurant owner in durham whose family's home has been destroyed. frightening to watch, and when your friends and family are in turkey, the anxiety is unimaginable. you feel helpless. — the anxiety is unimaginable. you feel helpless, you _ the anxiety is unimaginable. gm. feel helpless, you know you cannot do anything. you know your family are dying or they are in trouble, you are watching them. and like everyone, it is your country, your people, everyone is like family. and then this thing does not have religion, does not have colour or country. it isjust religion, does not have colour or country. it is just human people are dying and that is really sad. country. it isjust human people are dying and that is really sad.- dying and that is really sad. jengis was woken from _ dying and that is really sad. jengis was woken from calls _ dying and that is really sad. jengis was woken from calls from - dying and that is really sad. jengis was woken from calls from his - was woken from calls from his family in his hometown in the early hours. his brother described what happened as they scramble to safety. he

his brother described what happened as they scramble to safety.— as they scramble to safety. he says literall he as they scramble to safety. he says literally he got _ as they scramble to safety. he says literally he got up _ as they scramble to safety. he says literally he got up and _ as they scramble to safety. he says literally he got up and it _ as they scramble to safety. he says literally he got up and it was - literally he got up and it was shaking that much, said, he thought the building was going to collapse, firstly. hejust the building was going to collapse, firstly. he just thought, the building was going to collapse, firstly. hejust thought, get the building was going to collapse, firstly. he just thought, get the kids. and then the wall collapsed. he managed to get out and then run. his best friend is still missing after the earthquake. suddenly, his best friend is still missing afterthe earthquake. suddenly, home seems an awful long way away. let's speak now to zaina er—haim, a syrianjournalist based in london. i understand you have family in the country that you are extremely worried about. what are you hearing from them? mr; worried about. what are you hearing from them?— from them? my mum lives in gaziantep. — from them? my mum lives in gaziantep. in _ from them? my mum lives in gaziantep, in southern - from them? my mum lives in i gaziantep, in southern turkey, from them? my mum lives in - gaziantep, in southern turkey, that is her refugee place after fleeing the war in syria. she has been living there for a while. ijust

spoke with her now, after literally more than 26 hours in a car she finally managed to find shelter that she is staying at. the shelter is very basically equipped. it only has mattresses. there are no gas heaters, no running water, they finally got soaked now but nothing else. —— super. my mother is privileged to have a car and stay warm. there are thousands in the streets, and in turkey they did not have that. the issue is now that they are running out of fuel. there are very few fuel stations providing fuel, which makes those privileged people who already have access to cars, struggle with arranging basic heat needs. cars, struggle with arranging basic heat needs-— heat needs. obviously it is extremely _ heat needs. obviously it is extremely difficult - heat needs. obviously it is extremely difficult for - heat needs. obviously it isj extremely difficult for your heat needs. obviously it is - extremely difficult for your family at the moment, and they have managed

to escape, it sounds like. and they are at a place of safety. but there are at a place of safety. but there are so many people we are hearing still trapped in rubble, so many areas that still are not getting the help they need. what are you hearing about that? . . help they need. what are you hearing about that? ,, . , , , about that? since yesterday, my facebook feed _ about that? since yesterday, my facebook feed has _ about that? since yesterday, my facebook feed has turned - about that? since yesterday, my facebook feed has turned into i facebook feed has turned into sometimes a funeral, or an act of searching mechanism, lots of friends and family members are still looking for their relatives, who are still in the wreckage, in northern syria, or where lots of syrians have been living before they left the war. hundreds are still, i would say hundreds, literally, if my feed has all of these names, the actual numbers are much higher. and the internet connection, because of the urgency of everyone looking for their parents or relatives, that is not great. even if the network is working, there is no electricity to be able to charge the phones, to

communicate. so some people are volunteering and helping on the buildings that actually knocked out because of the earthquake, to tell everyone, orjust say, i have found this kid, if you know their name, let us know. it is becoming like a research mechanism on facebook today, a three—year—old kid, and extended relative of mine, was found. his mother was under the wreckage, and his brother was killed. theirfamily wreckage, and his brother was killed. their family have wreckage, and his brother was killed. theirfamily have been posting pictures and asking whoever has rescued the kid from his mother's house, to let them know. they looked in all of the hospitals. they looked in all of the hospitals. they even started looking in other areas. and luckily, finally, today, they found him. this isjust one story about many others that are being told now. we are seeing pictures of people rescuing people from the rubble, obviously extremely distressing. apologies to you as well, because i know this is distressing to talk about. from what i am hearing, you

are saying that people are escaping, people are finding places of safety. we are hearing more than 5000 dead. what about international help? what has syria been asking for? and how difficult is the international, with so many different political geopolitics going on? well, in turke , geopolitics going on? well, in turkey. it _ geopolitics going on? well, in turkey. it is — geopolitics going on? well, in turkey, it is well _ geopolitics going on? well, in turkey, it is well that - geopolitics going on? well, in turkey, it is well that has - geopolitics going on? well, in. turkey, it is well that has faced earthquakes and is ready to deal with such circumstances, it is this diet, and it is awful. we can imagine what is happening in syria. even before that, we didn't have health measures or instructions on buildings, the buildings have already been very fragile. and with the regime bombing and the russian bombing of the buildings, they were falling apart even before the earthquake. so, adding to that, the

health systems that have been deliberately attacked by the regime in russia for the last ten years, it is not capable of serving it. the rescuers are working on so many areas and they don't have the right equipment, and no international rescuers are getting on, no international support is getting in. even condolences and support, they are mainly mentioning turkey and forgetting about syria as if it is the usual full syrians to die, so there is no need to really think about that. i think from what i am seeing and hearing in northern syria, if there is no urgent and international help getting to parts of northern aleppo, the number of deaths is going to be much, much larger. deaths is going to be much, much larrer. . g deaths is going to be much, much larrer. . ~' ,, , . deaths is going to be much, much larrer. . g ,, , . ., larger. thank you very much. your family affected _ larger. thank you very much. your family affected by _ larger. thank you very much. your family affected by those _ family affected by those earthquakes, and we are going to be following that throughout the day. the energy giant bp has reported record profits for last year,

driven by surging oil and gas prices because of the war in ukraine. bp made £23 billion in 2022, more than double the total in the previous year. i spoke to our business correspondent nina warhurst who put these figures into context regarding the cost of living crisis. when you look at the numbers that you set at the beginning, profit of 20,000,000,020 22, one double the amount of the year before. the year before that, bp worked at a loss. there are eye watering numbers. the doubling is over the same period that the average household has doubled the energy bills. that is when you incorporate government support into that as well. so, that contrast between how much they are making and how much more we are paying scenes, too many people, unfair. i mean, huge caveats within that, as you heard from your guest. first of all, these are global profits. not all of that money is taxable in the uk. on top of that, big energy firms need to make money.

they need to reinvest to be profitable, in order to invest in green energy. but still, questions around fairness. labour are saying this morning that the system or a windfall tax, an extra levy that the government was imposing on energy companies for the unpredicted, extraordinary profit they are making. they say the system isn't working, that more should be generated from that revenue. so bp estimate that for 2022, 620 8 million also will be put towards windfall tax. but that makes up less than 10% of global profits. shell announced their biggest profits in 115 year history, 32 billion. just 111 paid in windfall taxes. the tuc have said this morning it will make hard pressed families feel like cash machines. labourare hard pressed families feel like cash machines. labour are saying that a proper windfall system needs to be reintroduced. we are talking every

week to people who are having to sit this winter out in the dark and cold because they can't afford to pay energy bills. there are caveats that global companies pay global taxes, instead of in the uk. still, it doesn't sit easily with those at home watching this morning and thinking that they are doubling their profits, as i am doubling my energy bills. the final sentencing hearing for david carrick, the serial rapist who was a metropolitan police officer for 20 years, is under way at southwark crown court. carrick has pleaded guilty to 85 offences against 12 women, including 48 rapes, as well as charges of sexual assault and false imprisonment. there has been some distressing details in thejudge's there has been some distressing details in the judge's summing up and we understand that some of you have been upset by what you have heard. we are now going to cross back to the court to hear the final

part of sentencing. again, there may be some details that you may find distressing. thejudge is... the distressing. the 'udge is... the nature distressing. the 'udge is... the nartue and — distressing. thejudge is... tue: nature and circumstances of any other offence of which the offender has been convicted, it may take into account any information about any pattern of behaviour in which any of the offences form a part, and may take into account any information about the offender before it. serious harm is defined by section 363, as death or serious personal injury, whether physical or psychological. this predictive assessment must be made as of the date of sentencing and on the premise that the offender is not in custody. the author of the presentence report concludes that

you pose a higher risk of causing serious sexual and physical harm to the public, and presently to yourself. i am sure the test is satisfied, because of the persistence of your commission of serious sexual offences, particularly rape, again so many victims, over such a long period of time, which has already led to serious harm. i am sure that you present a grave danger to women who might be persuaded to be alone with you in intimate situations, and this danger will last indefinitely. i have considered guidance from lord thomas, the chiefjustice in the crown, and i have to consider what form of sentence should follow this determination. section 285 of the sentencing code applies to those offences you committed after the lith offences you committed after the lith of april 2005, which comprises the

majority. the series of offences i have to sentence you with, has a last resort sentence of imprisonment for life. indeed, only such a sentence will reach the gravity of offending that i have to deal with you for, in combination with the risk you pose. similarly, for the five offences of rape which fall out with the sentencing code scheme, i am satisfied that life sentences are required to meet the gravity of offending, and the risk that you will continue to pose. i have assessed very carefully whether, given your abuse of position, this case should attract a whole life order. the rare sentence of last, last resort is a life sentence with a whole life tariff. in the case of

2020, the court of appeal criminal division examined conjoint cases involving serious sexual offending on a scale of extreme gravity. although life sentences with a minimum term to be served of a0 years were appropriate after a trial, none of those cases reached the threshold of a whole life tariff, the view of the court. none of those offenders were policemen, and the court did not have drawn to their attention any scenario close to the one resented to this court. the prosecution specifically does not seek to persuade me that your offending fits the description of wholly exceptional circumstances which the court indicated would justify such an order. i have also scrutinised the judgment of the court in another recent conjoint case, the crown and stewart cousins, dustin and hughes, 2022, in which

the offender, cousins, appealed against the whole life order imposed against the whole life order imposed against him, following a notorious abduction of a young woman from the streets of london, accomplished while he was an off duty police officer by use of his warrant card, followed by her rape and murder. the court accepted the police officer was in a uniquely powerful position. in respect of the fixing of minimum terms, where a mandatory life sentence is required by law, as set out in schedule 21 of the sentencing code, a different scheme to the one i have to apply, lord burnett, chief justice, stated the principle, in our view, the correct approach is to focus on the facts that come in a rare case, might lead to the conclusion that a whole life order is appropriate. paragraph 83, having explained the correct route to a

whole life order in that case, he continued, this was, as the judge said, warped, selfish and brutal offending that was both sexual and homicidal. it was a case with unique and extreme aggravating features. chief among these, as the judge correctly identified, was the grotesque misuse of wayne couzens of his position as a police officer, to facilitate sarah everard's kidnap, rape and murder. we agree with the observations of the judge about the unique position of the police, the critical importance of their role and a critical trust that the public reposed in them. end of quote. had the court imagined the case was equated to the mass murder case of the foiled terrorist atrocity which the foiled terrorist atrocity which the court decided would compel a

coach to attach a whole life sentence. the standout feature is the element of abuse of the status of a police constable. but having considered the matter with care i have come to the same conclusion as the prosecution, of the utmost gravity though this is, the wholly exceptional circumstances test is not met. thus, the imposition of a discretionary life sentence without a whole life tariff must be accompanied by an evaluation of the notional determinative term that would have been required to mark the gravity of the total offending, had a life sentence not been imposed. that term provides the start of the calculation required to reach a minimum term and offender must serve. it must be for the shortest term that is commensurate with the seriousness of the offences before the court. mr williamson,

seriousness of the offences before the court. mrwilliamson, kings council, in his distinct and well focused mitigation submits that the criminality before this court does not reach the extreme limits found in the cases of the offenders can and senaga. i do not agree. your offending was over 17 years and encompassed 12 victims. another single element that elevates your offending is the principal aggravating feature, the explicit or implicit use of your occupation to entice, reassure or intimidate your victims. i have to bear in mind that my function is to oppose appropriate punishment, and when that is served, the parole board will decide how to protect the public thereafter. decades will have passed before that time comes. i conclude that the

notional determinant sentence is 60 years, to that guilty plea a discount of 20% will be applied, it is to your credit you did not contest the trial. your decision deserves this recognition because thatis deserves this recognition because that is no doubt that a court hearing at which evidence is given and challenged provides a particular ordealfor victims. and challenged provides a particular ordealforvictims. from and challenged provides a particular ordeal for victims. from the resulting term of a8 years i have to set two thirds minus the time spent so far in custody which is a91 days. stand—up, david carrick. i have made ancillary orders for deprivation pursuant to section 153 of the sentencing act, and restraining orders under section 359 and 360. they will remain in force until further order. the victim surcharge applies, i make no sexual harm

prevention orders given the nature of the sentence i am about to pass. on the main indictment on counts 16-19, 29, 30, 31, 32, 38, 39, a2 and a3 the sentence is four years imprisonment on each concurrent. on counts 2a and 25 the sentence is seven years on each concurrent. on account six on the second indictment i impose a concurrent determinant sentence of nine years. 31 synthesis of life imprisonment are imposed on the main indictment on counts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 1a, 15, 17,

eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 1a, 15,17,18, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 1a, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 1a, 15,17,18,20,21,22, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 1a, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 15,17,18,20,21,22,23,26,27, 28,33, 15,17,18,20,21,22,23,26,27, 28, 33, 3a, 35, to six, 37, a0 and a1. also five life sentences imposed on the second indictment on count one, two, three, four and five. this makes a total of 36 life sentences, the minimum term you will have to serve before the parole board can think of releasing you is 30 years, 239 days. you may go down.

the court salutes the courage of all the victims and their families and i hope they are able to thrive in the rest of their lives. the teams of police officers concerned have worked hard to bring this case to court and keep the confidence of the victims, to do so under the fiercest scrutiny this case has attracted is promising for the future. the cps lawyers and council have met tight deadlines set by the court and put the case together fairly and effectively. the defence team has met the challenge of dealing with an evolving set of grave allegations and a complete the disoriented client with patience and professionalism. the court recognises the work and to thank all of you. arnie recognises the work and to thank all of ou. ~ , :, :, recognises the work and to thank all of ou.~ , :, :, of you. we believe that now as the sentencing — of you. we believe that now as the sentencing finishes. _ of you. we believe that now as the sentencing finishes. the _ of you. we believe that now as the sentencing finishes. the judge -

sentencing finishes. the judge adjourning the case and sentencing for long met a police officer david carrick to 30 years, a minimum of 30 years. with me now is farah nazeer, chief executive of women's aid. you are watching proceedings there, give me your reaction to that sentence, is it enough? tt is give me your reaction to that sentence, is it enough? it is the acceptable _ sentence, is it enough? it is the acceptable sentence _ sentence, is it enough? it is the acceptable sentence of - sentence, is it enough? it is the acceptable sentence of a - sentence, is it enough? it is the acceptable sentence of a very i acceptable sentence of a very unacceptable situation. it has come 17 years and 12 victims too late. that is the overriding concern. what it shows as the courage and commitment and determination of those women who went up against an agent of the law, it is very hard to do that even when you are not up against a police officer and the courage and bravery needed to be commended and that will send a message to other women thatjustice can be achieved. find

message to other women that 'ustice can be achievedfi can be achieved. and that is a huge -oint, can be achieved. and that is a huge point. there — can be achieved. and that is a huge point, there will— can be achieved. and that is a huge point, there will be _ can be achieved. and that is a huge point, there will be many _ can be achieved. and that is a huge point, there will be many women i point, there will be many women watching and hearing about this that is another metropolitan police officers involved and a horrific case. you speak to a lot of women who have been through difficult circumstances, what do you understand about women's relationship between the met police. it is fair to say women have lost considerable trust and the met police. starting off with the sarah everard case and a raft of reports and this latest case, what we have not seen as a real shift or turnaround, we stosur the culture as prevailing misogynistic and sexist, not enough training going end but frankly what we need to see as an overall change in culture, a system shift and transformation, everything to be looked at and scrutinised, we

need proper leadership. we do not need proper leadership. we do not need yet another report. we have the report, we need action to be taken. that looks like a real scrutiny around who is coming into the police, a scrutiny on the culture, training, for violence against women to be prioritised. if it is not prioritised the none of the rest will follow. it needs a real overhaul before b began to trust the police, particularly the met again. the met has replaced its leader, it has said it is routing out officers, going to be some hard stories along the way. don't you feel they are doing that and are sticking to their word. t doing that and are sticking to their word. g doing that and are sticking to their word. ~' :, ~' , , doing that and are sticking to their word. ~ :, ~ , , :, :, word. i think work is being done and there aren't — word. i think work is being done and there aren't many _ word. i think work is being done and there aren't many good _ word. i think work is being done and there aren't many good people - word. i think work is being done and | there aren't many good people doing good work and we don't want to take away from the important what the police do but cases like this and

abuses like this really expose the culture that exists. the fact that this officer was brought to attention nine times, colleagues knew about his behaviour, he was allowed to persist, key men to the met with concerns around relationship she had had, how is that allowed to happen and what assurances do we have on the whole of the police force across the country that more is being done. we need far more transparency and to understand what is happening and to see the police are actively working with women's groups to bring in a shift in the culture that is clearly dominant. t shift in the culture that is clearly dominant. :, , ,:, ~ shift in the culture that is clearly dominant. :, , :, shift in the culture that is clearly dominant. :, :, :, , dominant. i have spoken to many victims who _ dominant. i have spoken to many victims who have _ dominant. i have spoken to many victims who have dealt _ dominant. i have spoken to many victims who have dealt with - dominant. i have spoken to many victims who have dealt with the l dominant. i have spoken to many i victims who have dealt with the met police and what they have said quite often as when they report something like this they will have to deport

led to a man or do not feel like they are listened to, is that what you are hearing.— you are hearing. absolutely, not 'ust the you are hearing. absolutely, not just the met. — you are hearing. absolutely, not just the met, all— you are hearing. absolutely, not just the met, all police - you are hearing. absolutely, not just the met, all police forces i just the met, all police forces across the country, it is fair to say the vast majority of reports go in to men, that is a difficult situation for a woman who has experienced any form of abuse, but should not be the case, at a woman is presenting this issue there should be a female officer on board who is trained and able to support the victim to tell their story. the need to be connections with local women's services to the survivor can be referred and supported through the system. the system currently is not set up to support women who have experienced sexual violence any form of violence against women or girls domestic abuse and we can see that

everyday. we also need thorough training together with a cultural shift and privatisation, it needs to be the top priority of all forces across the country to deal with this in terms of how they are culturally positioning women and how seriously they take these crimes against women and it needs to be absolutely palletised in training.- and it needs to be absolutely palletised in training. the prime minister has announced a reshuffle of his top team — and has created four new government departments. he's also named the new conservative party chairman — after the sacking of nadhim zahawi.

he'll replace nadhim zahawi after an internal investigation into his tax affairs found a "serious breach" of ministerial rules.among the other changes, grant shapps will become the energy security and net zero secretary and michelle donelan will take on the role of science, innovation and technology secretary. we can speak now to the former conservative adviser, jo—anne nadler. why do you think the prime minister has decided on this reorganisation at this time? as cabinet is facing a number of questions. tt at this time? as cabinet is facing a number of questions.— number of questions. it has been forced upon _ number of questions. it has been forced upon him _ number of questions. it has been forced upon him by _ number of questions. it has been| forced upon him by circumstances because as you reported he had to sack his former party chairman, a vacancy arose and as a consequence when you move people around the chess set then vacancies elsewhere become available. the chess set then vacancies elsewhere become available. the appointment of gre: hands become available. the appointment of greg hands as— become available. the appointment of greg hands as tory — become available. the appointment of greg hands as tory chairman, - become available. the appointment of greg hands as tory chairman, has - greg hands as tory chairman, has significant as that. tt is

significant as that. it is interesting, _ significant as that. it is interesting, he - significant as that. it is interesting, he is - significant as that. it is. interesting, he is known significant as that. it is - interesting, he is known to significant as that. tt 3 interesting, he is known to be a hard working hands—on campaigner, he has eight central london seat and i think that a significant because gia and london there will be a may oral race, not something the conservatives have been effective at since the departure of borisjohnson so somebody who is established in the capital will be very important for that campaign seen as something of a launching pad for the general election. he is not particularly well known outside conservative circles but he is well liked, considered very competent and he is somebody who is a very dependable performer on the media, also very much from the same cloth as rishi sunak so there may be criticism that jeremy hunt, rishi sunak, greg hands

all your likely same kind of technocrat middle—aged man but as long as they get the job done that as the most important and there are as the most important and there are a lot of good things, good reasons to appoint greg hands. arnie a lot of good things, good reasons to appoint greg hands.— a lot of good things, good reasons to appoint greg hands. we have this new ener: to appoint greg hands. we have this new energy security _ to appoint greg hands. we have this new energy security department, i to appoint greg hands. we have this new energy security department, do j new energy security department, do you think that will make a difference to bills. tt you think that will make a difference to bills.- you think that will make a difference to bills. it is quite interesting _ difference to bills. it is quite interesting politically - difference to bills. it is quite interesting politically the i difference to bills. it is quite i interesting politically the way he has brought together energy security and then zero because there is a constituency within the conservative party that is somewhat sceptical about the speed with which we have been rushing towards net zero policy. particularly since the theresa may government. so what i think he has done quite cleverly as align the necessity for energy security with the push for net are

zero so i would like to think that grant shapps will look at the various ways to achieve energy security, some of which are slightly in conflict with the then zero agenda so perhaps you look at fracking and a more successful integration of established energy back into the system, possible fossil fuels and oil, back into the system, possible fossilfuels and oil, it is interesting to see how he sets the balance. :, g interesting to see how he sets the balance. :, ~ , :, the headlines on bbc news... former met police officer, david carrick is sentenced to 36 life sentences and will serve a minimum 30 years in prison for 85 offences against 12 women, over seventeen years. more than five thousand people are now known to have died in the earthquakes which struck turkey and syria — with reports that some victims

are sending voice notes from beneath the rubble the prime minister announces a cabinet reshuffle and restucturing of some government departments — with greg hands replacing nadhim zahawi as tory chairman. police in surrey have given more details about the deaths of the head of an elite private school, and herfamily. emma pattison, who was a5, her 39—year—old husband george, and their seven year old daughter lettie, were discovered at their home in the grounds of epsom college, in the early hours of yesterday morning. our reporter robin brant have me the latest update earlier. police are treating this as a murder, a double murder and then a suicide.

they believe that george pattison, who was 39—year—old, he's a chartered accountant, shot his wife emma in the family home, which is on the grounds of epsom college. he then killed their daughter, lettie. she was only seven and then he took his own life with the same weapon. i also understand that in the time preceding those events, whether late there at 1:00 on sunday morning, mrs pattison made a distressed call to a member of herfamily. that person went to the family home in epsom on the grounds of the college, but by the time they got there, all three people were dead. now i'm also told that george pattison has a gun licence. there was some kind of contact, a phone call, i understand, between surrey police and him in the days preceding these events. it was a routine matter, i understand, because he needed to update his gun licence because. to update his gun licence because they had recently moved home. so there has been some kind of contact. now surrey police has referred itself to the independent office of police conduct. they've confirmed they'd

received that this morning. police, i think, see that as a routine matter. we don't know exactly what it's in regard to. i'm also told that postmortem examinations are expected to take place later this week. detectives investigating the disappearance of nicola bulley are focusing their efforts on a river path as they continue the search. the a5—year—old was last seen walking her dog in st michael's on wyre in lancashire 11 days ago. a team of specialist divers are searching the river, as our correspondent danny savage reports. yesterday morning, a new search team joined the hunt for nicola bulley — a team who had been contacted by her family to see if they could help. they are using an advanced sonar system which can map the riverbed. if the tragic truth is that nicola bulley is in the river, they are confident of success.

i do believe she's in it, from the evidence we've got at the moment. i mean, everything is pointing to the river at the moment. and there's no — there doesn't seem to be a third party involved. this is the stretch of river where she went missing. it's twisty, murky and in places quite deep. it's not an easy stretch of water to check and be sure they haven't missed something. her friends and family are grateful for everything being done here. at the moment, we just need a picture to start to form. i mean, peter's knowledge and expertise in this area, we're just really hoping that he will shed some light on whether he thinks she is in the river, or not. the circumstances surrounding nicky bulley�*s disappearance are barely believable. she vanished in a short window of time when she was out of sight of others. the hope is that this new phase of searching will give some answers to herfamily. danny savage, bbc news st michael's on wyre.

our correspondent dave guest gave us the latest from st michael's on wyre a short time ago. day 11 now, and the head of that private search team who are using this sonar equipment that danny savage was talking about in his report, we were talking to him earlier. he says that in nearly 25 years in this business, this is one of the most baffling cases he's come across. he said that the police searched the immediate area of that bench — remember the bench where nicola's phone was found? it was still connected to a work call and the dog was near to the bench, as well. he said they searched that area there, which is where you would have expected if she had fallen in she would have been there on that first day. they found nothing. his team, using their advanced equipment, which can apparently pick up everything from sticks and stones and everything else on the riverbed, they've searched an area of the river yesterday and come up with nothing. he believes that today could be a crunch point to either find something or perhaps even say categorically she's not in there. he has said he's confident that his equipment means that if nicola is in the river then

they will find her. if she isn't, of course that opens up a whole lot of other questions. but in the meantime, let's not forget, at the heart of all this are her partner, paul, and her two little girls who are desperate for some concrete news about what's happened to nicola. she set off, dropped the children at school on that friday morning, went for a walk with her dog and disappeared within that ten—minute window. nobody�*s seen her since. the police again asking for dashcam footage for anybody who may be passing on the main road herejust behind me, who was out on friday, 27th january, or for anybody else who may have seen her after about 9.20am on that friday morning. in the meantime, though, the wait for news continues for nicola bulley�*s family. thousands of nurses in england are taking part in a second consecutive day of strike action today. the government has refused to re—open pay talks with union leaders despite pleas from hospital bosses. the health secretary, steve barclay,

said more than 80,000 appointments and 11—thousand operations were cancelled as a result of strikes by nurses and ambulance workers yesterday. strike action by postal workers next thursday has been called off following a legal challenge by royal mail. staff staged several strikes at the end of last year, but the communication workers union said it had been advised against fighting the case. royal mail said the cancelled strikes would mean "relief" for customers. the headlines on bbc news... google says it's launching its own artificial intelligence powered chatbot to rival chatgpt— which mimics human writing on demand. chatgpt, owned by microsoft, has astonished the tech world since its launch two months ago — but has also raised questions and concerns about the future of ai versus human intelligences. james clayton reports from los angeles. chatgpt set the internet on fire when it launched in november. its incredibly detailed answers have

amazed users. its incredibly detailed answers have amazed users. it can pass exams, compose poems, even write code. it's seen as game—changing technology. now google has rushed to announce its version of chatgpt. it's called bard and it's based on similar technology. "bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models," google's boss, sundar pichai, wrote in a blog. mr pichai stressed he wanted google's ai services to be bold and responsible, but there was more than a whiff of panic too. this announcement is the latest salvo in a monumentalfight between google and microsoft. because make no mistake about it, chatgpt threatens to undermine google's entire business model. that's because chatgpt�*s ai could transform search engines, producing far more tailored and relevant results. it's now widely expected that microsoft's search engine bing will be incorporated into chatgpt, and that announcement

is expected imminently. and you can see why google is seriously worried. more than 90% of the world's searches are on google. the company makes a fortune from that dominance through advertising revenue. in contrast, around 3% of searches are currently on bing. microsoft would love a bit of that pie. in mountain view, home of google's headquarters, executives are concerned. they hope that bard will be the answer to chatgpt. the company has poured money into ai over the past few years. bard is based around a language model called lamda, which one google employee said was so humanlike he believed the system to be sentient. we still don't know how good bard is or will be, but one thing we do know is that google is seriously spooked. just one way chatgpt is already disrupting the tech industry. james clayton, bbc news, silicon valley.

are you someone who used to send letters to a famous celebrity when you were younger? maybe you were lucky enough to get one one back. well david best from herefordshire received letters from the lord of the rings authorjrr tolkein when he was a teenager. he's had them restored by the bbc one programme — the repair shop. james bovill went to find out more. on this bookshelf, in this house on the herefordshire and worcestershire border, something that is straight out of middle—earth. in 1967, a 15—year—old david best spent his nights at home translating the poems of tolkien into the ancient language of runes used by the birmingham author in his the lord of the rings series. as a kid growing up having come from a rural location, there was not much to do in the evenings, and i suspect, judging by the amount of work that i now see and hear, i must have spent a lot of evenings doing that. keen to know if his work was up to scratch, david sent his work directly to tolkien,

but he never expected a reply. this is the first letter i receieved on the 12th of may 1967, and he said, "dear mr best, i received your volume of tom bombadil part one in english runes." "i have not yet had time to look at it." but david's childhood correspondence hasn't always looked this good. afterfalling into disrepair, he took them to everyone's favourite tv restoration experts to bring them back to their former glory. this is exactly what david wanted, was the two books bound together as one, the one true book. so what was david's verdict on the repair shop's handiwork? goodness me. that's incredible, chris. gosh. chris, you have done a fabulous job. letters, poems, even a faithful creation of middle—earth itself, a collection brought back to life to treasure for a lifetime.

now it's time for a look at the weather. some of us will greeted with frost and fog fostering, some of it has been very wanted to clear, causing travel problems. further north and west not fog but cloud, a band sinking slowly south—east bringing just the odd spot of rain, brighter skies following on, winds picking up on the far north of scotland. for the fog has cleared some spells of sunshine, temperatures 6—11 and over make the band of cloud sits across parts of north—west england and southern scotland, maybe some drizzle, winds strengthening in the north—west of scotland but further south across wales and central and

southern england quite a widespread frost, most potential and —5 or —6 and of the high pressure but the frontal system from the north—west making for some more turbulent weather particularly in parts of scotland. fog could again be a problem tomorrow morning across the midlands, wales, towards the south of angle, son of a dense and slow to clear but across angled and wales we should see sunshine but for northern ireland and scotland more cloud and rain to the far north—west, winds strengthening, gusts up to 75 possible in parts of north—west scotland, temperature could be between 7—10 but under the fog in the south that could stay colder than that. the weather front sinking south and east during wednesday into thursday when we can, just some cloud and the far south—east on thursday morning but winter showers in the north of scotland, much of

the snow on high ground, rain and sleet to lower levels and wintry showers feeding, dry weather through thursday, highs of 8—9 but a change to the end of the week, high—pressure building to the south, frontal system pushing from the north—west and this will bring more of a westerly wind feeling milder air across the uk, high to pitchers on friday and northern ireland and scotland, highs of maybe 12—13.

gaziantep. in turkey, they are praying for similar miracles, but hopes are fading. every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors alive diminishes. we'll have the very latest live from southern turkey. also this lunchtime:

a former met police officer, david carrick, who was one