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Murdering a businessman at his home in south london after meeting him on a dating app. And more than 50 hours of surgery. The great skill of great ormond street hospital surgeons as they try to separate these conjoined twins. Good evening. The Prime Minister is hosting a reception tonight for englands world cup cricket champions, after the most extraordinary when they enjoyed against new zealand last night. After more than eight my hours of play the result could hardly have been tighter. The two teams drew and even the so called super over ended neck and neck, but england claimed victory simply because they had scored more boundaries during the game. It is the first time the england mens team has ever won the cricket world cup after being runners up three times. This morning excited fans gathered at the oval to meet their heroes and tonight the celebrations continue, as an hour ago theresa may welcomed the team to downing street for a victory party. The Prime Ministership cans with captain eoin morgan and the rest of the team who stood with their trophy proudly outside number ten. Sports editor dan rowan reports. How good does this feel . Here at the oval today cricket it seemed was cool again. Englands captain mobbed by a new generation of fans descended on the ground after being invited to celebrate with their heroes following one of the greatest games ever to grace the sport. One of the stars of yesterdays staggering final telling me how much it meant. It was a Great Team Effort and it means a lot more to these people than to us and that is a great thing. What will it do for the sport . Hopefully the next generation of players are here today and we can get the whole who say they are here today. England celebrations continued late into the night at lords after a final of almost unimaginable drama. No wonder the poured in from her majesty the queen and the Prime Minister and countless others. I dont think it really setting yesterday. We knew we had won the world cup, but i dont think it probably will for the next couple of days. Coming down here and seeing all the kids and the parents and the videos online and people in trafalgar square, seeing how much it meant to them. The complications of the critical moments are still being discussed. When this throw hit ben stokes bat and flew to the boundary it seems he should have got five runs instead of six because he only completed one at the time of the throw. The controversy, preferring to focus on the preparations and progress that has seen them become the dominant team in the world. These are the kind of scenes english cricket has been dreaming of for years. If these players didnt realise it before, then perhaps this acclaim will show them the extent to which yesterdays extraordinary final at lords has changed not only their lives but perhaps their sport as well. Yesterday rubbed off on these players playing in london, but with the numbers playing and watching the game falling over the last decade, the sense is that this moment must be seized. Cricket has been hidden away for 20 years and people who were not natural sports fans were gripped. People were trying to convince them that cricket was a great sport and they saw it yesterday, the drama of the game, and how it can unite people. Despite clashing with the wimbledon final and the british grand prix, live cricket returned to free to air tv for the first time in many years. Watched by 8 million people. That was down to sky sharing coverage with channel 4. But almost all future england games are set to return behind the payroll. All the money from tv rights does go back into the game in one form or another. Balance that against wanting as many people to see cricket as we can get to see cricket. That is a balance we have to strike. The challenge now is to stay there. The question is how will this victory by england, and the fact it was shown on terrestrial tv, watched by millions, how will that affect the popularity of cricket and the take up of it at Grassroots Level . We have the Communications Manager at the cricket Charity Chance to shine. Adam, essentially you encourage Young Children to play cricket and you hope it will add to their personal development. To what extent their personal development. To what exte nt d o their personal development. To what extent do you think this victory will encourage more children to play . Absolutely, we work with around half a million children every year, with one and four Primary Schools and we are very excited about this we think it is a brilliant moment for cricket and we are hoping to see so many mark excited to come along then join their local club, local all star ce ntre their local club, local all star centre so we really want this enthusiasm and excitement generated by the incredible performance of the team yesterday will really boost the sport. How important do you think it was that it was on terrestrial tv so millions could get the chance to see such a thrilling game. Millions could get the chance to see such a thrilling gamelj millions could get the chance to see such a thrilling game. I think it was the best advert for the game we could have asked for. Doesnt get much more exciting than that and a brilliant way for the game to be shown to millions of people across the country. I think the team at sky and the england and Wales Cricket board, putting that together, it has been really great. When you talk about children playing cricket at school and elsewhere, our schools offering cricket . I mean, is it a little limited in this country in terms of the number of schools offering it as a sport . Yes, as i say, one in four Primary Schools receive the coaching, around 5000 schools in england and wales, which isa schools in england and wales, which is a great number and a great start, but also there are many more we could be working with. And we have free Resources Available for schools if the teachers who have been excited by this game, if their pupils have come in and gone, sir, miss, we want to play cricket. We have the resources on our website completely free and that is a great way for schools to take this chance and make the most of it. How important do you think cricket is to a childs development . Absolutely vital. At chance to shine we know how cricket can teach you valuable skills about teamwork, leadership, resilience. It is so important children do get that opportunity to play the sport we absolutely love and cherish. I remember as a boy trying to play cricket myself and having a bit of coaching. It is not the easiest sport in the world, is it . Quite a technical support, especially the batting. Yes, you say that, but what we really tried to do with our coaching sessions and our available resources is to make the sport as a simple, easy and accessible as possible, well then a lot of our work is tied to pupils with developing those five motor skills, ball throwing and catching, and we try to break down all those barriers and things. We talk to teachers and they say, we dont know how to teach cricket, but we really wa nt how to teach cricket, but we really want to make it as easy and simple as possible because we know how great it is once you get into it. Do you think you might be working with some of the great england cricketers in the future, both men and women . Absolutely. We were down at a school in west london this morning. The kids were saying, we want to build a super over, kids were saying, we want to build a superover, and kids were saying, we want to build a super over, and they are playing some amazing shots, we want to bowl a super over. I have no doubt the class of 2019 will have inspired a generation who will go on to stay within the game and to love the sport. Lets hope so. Adam sofroniou, Communications Manager at chance to shine, the cricket charity that works with children, thank you so that works with children, thank you so much case might be in with us. Thank you. The two contenders to be britains next Prime Minister are going head to head this evening in their final televised debate of the campaign. Boris johnson is their final televised debate of the campaign. Borisjohnson is vying with jeremy hunt to campaign. Borisjohnson is vying withjeremy hunt to be elected leader of the conservative party and britains next Prime Minister. Tonights hustings are hosted by the Sun Newspaper and its office in ca nary wharf where Sun Newspaper and its office in canary wharf where conservative Party Members have been putting questions to the candidates and our Political Correspondent chris mason is there for us this evening. Bring first night up to date. What have been the key subjects debated . Can you bring us up to date . Yes, i am whispering a little from the rim on the floor of the news building on the south bank of the thames. Just about 20 minutes or so left. It has been going on over an hour. The Key Development tonight as both candidates were asked about their reaction to President Trumps comments over the weekend on that twitter thread, widely seen as racist, the comments about the four Democratic Congresswomen, and this is how both candidates responded in terms of both what they made of what he had to say. I have three have chinese children, and if anyone. And they are british citizens, all on the nhs, and ifanyone and they are british citizens, all on the nhs, and if anyone ever said to them, go back to china, i would be utterly appalled, and i will Say Something else. It is totally un british to do that. Thes applause sol applause so i hope it would never happen in this country. I have to say i think the relationship between the uk and the usa is incredibly important, but if you are the leader of a great multiracial and multicultural society, you simply cannot use that kind of language about sending people back to where they came from. Imean, people back to where they came from. I mean, that went out decades and decades ago, thank heavens for that. Applause just to bring you up to date with a few of the developments in this debate. Borisjohnson was asked about remarks he made the other night talking about a forthcoming general election which led some to speculate he was perhaps planning an election pretty soon if he wins next week he made regarding. They were both asked about immigration, specifically,would you be committed to reducing immigration . That was the motivation for some people to vote to leave in the referendum. Borisjohnson vote to leave in the referendum. Boris johnson commented that vote to leave in the referendum. Borisjohnson commented that it would be under the control of the British Government after brexit but didnt specifically commit to a fall in the overall numbers. Jeremy hunt said that to acknowledge the will of so said that to acknowledge the will of so many people who voted cat might leave in the referendum it was vitally important that a future government did see immigration and the overall net amount come down who voted to leave in the referendum. Asked about leaving on the 31st of october, jeremy hunt whether he was willing to entertain the idea of a delay. This has been going on pretty much every day for the last few weeks. We have about another 15 minutes or so still to go. Chris, we will leave you to watch the rest and get the verdict of the various spin doctors there in the spin room. For the moment, thank you very much, chris mason. The labour party peers have called for an investigation into claims senior figures in the party interfered in the disciplinary process over complaints of anti semitism. The shadow cabinet has tonight called a meeting on monday to discuss the issue which comes after those allegations and a bbc Panorama Programme. Our Political Correspondent ian watson has been speaking to mps who were at tonights meeting at westminster. Really the fallout from that Panorama Programme on anti semitism continues . Yes, something of a long tail, this, doesnt it . People were saying they were shocked by the contents saying they were shocked by the co nte nts of saying they were shocked by the contents of that programme but now i think they are moving through shock and angerand think they are moving through shock and anger and some into reaction. As you mentioned, the labour peers have got together, certainly asking for an investigation, but more than that. They say the party should have an independent complaints system when dealing with anti semitism. Whats more, they are offering geoff Jeremy Corbyn to use the expertise of people in the house of lords, from they are offering Jeremy Corbyn to use their expertise, people in the lords, business, to set up an independent body to deal with those complaints if he wishes them to do so. So far there has been no response of that. It comes after a group of mps, 20 or so, had called for much the same thing yesterday, andi for much the same thing yesterday, and i am told there is a concerted push to try to get the party to move toa push to try to get the party to move to a more independent system at its next meeting of the ruling National Executive which is next week. As for tonight, we said there was a lot of anger being expressed at the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting about how they felt the Party Leadership and those around them had handled the response to the Panorama Programme and one mp representing those featured, he said, and if you think about it it is astonishing for a labour party mp to say this, she said the that idea that labour was the party of the workers made her quite sick. The chairman come on the left of the party, gave what some suggest it was a furious speech, and effectively he was saying that the labour party should really be standing with the people who had exposed what they saw as inappropriate interference in the anti semitism complaints system and that he would be writing them a letter expressing their solidarity. It looks as though there are an awful lot of very big bridges to be built between the Party Leadership and some of the mps and some of the wider members, but we should point out the Party Leadership is maintaining they have already tried to improve the system, they are dealing with more complaints far more swiftly than before, and Jeremy Corbyn himself went away from the gaze of cameras to talk to party staff today about their concerns. Thank you very much indeed, iain watson, a Political Correspondent at westminster. We will be finding out how that story and most of the other stories of the day are covered in tomorrows front pages of newspapers, at 10 1i0pm and half past 11 newspapers, at 10 1i0pm and half past ii in the cat papers. Joining me tonight, the deputy Political Editor of the guardian, rowena mason, and the deputy Political Editor of the daily mail, john stevens. Time for a look at our latest news headlines. England world cup winning cricketers are at downing street tonight as they continue their celebrations. Conservative Party Leadership contenders borisjohnson conservative Party Leadership contenders Boris Johnson and jeremy hunt take part in the second and final head to head debate of the tory leadership contest. President trump who has been accused of making racist remarks about four Democratic Congresswoman has intensified the row now by accusing them of being anti american. Shall we talk a bit more about that cricket match . Lets get that and all of the other sports news. Actually, we are not going to, ben. That was yesterdays news, that world cup over we will turn our attention to another world cup on home soil, the netball, of course, england taking a big step towards the semifinals in liverpool. Their first match in the Second Group Stage of the tournament was a really tough one, jamaica ranked higher than them, but england won 56 48 and they will win a spot in the last four if they beat Trinidad And Tobago on wednesday. The sunshine girls now need other results to go their way and it would be a shock if they didnt reach the last four. We knew this would be a tough game, four games knew this would be a tough game, fourgames ina knew this would be a tough game, four games in a row. When you after yesterday jamaica would be four games in a row. When you after yesterdayjamaica would be coming for this when well then i think it will be one of the toughest games of this round. Really pleased with the girls. You talk about heroes on the court and i think we had seven on that court today, and four on the bench. The semifinals are beyond scotland, though, after a third defeat in a row, losing to south africa, bottom of their group. South africa, bottom of their group. South africa moved level on points with england. In the other group, Northern Ireland lost to malawi, so they will not reach the semifinals either. Finally, good day for the defending champion Geraint Thomas at the tour de france, having moved up to second in the overall standings. After a really dramatic finish to stage ten, thomas started the stage in fifth, but he benefited from a late breakaway in the pellet on that court some of the riders off guard. When the conditions didnt help. The belgian went on to win the race in a sprint finish, his first career stage when at the tour. Thomas is still a minute behind overall leader, though, the frenchman. First groupings have been announced for the open getting under way at port rush on thursday. Home favourite rory mike roy will play with the new us open champion gary woodland, an englands paul casey. Tiger woods is with fellow american patrick reed and englishman matt wallace. Bryson dechambeau and the australian adam scott are alongside the reigning champion francesco molinari. The italian admits that looking after that claret jug for the italian admits that looking after that claretjug for the past 12 months has had its challenges. I was very careful with it, especially in the first few weeks, so much so i forgot my bag on a plane not to forget the claret jug. Obviously got the priorities. We have had a couple of dreams with it and nothing out of the ordinary for i have small kids at home so i had to keep it out of reach most of the time, to avoid disaster. Tom daley one mike braun the world aquatic diving championships in china. The first major honourfor diving championships in china. The first major honour for the pair which has also secured britain a place in that event for next years Tokyo Olympics tom daley has won the bronze medal. The World Championships the year before the Olympic Games and i have never been in the position where i have had a partner of the year before and olympics to try. I think maybe with pete, but we were not up in the middle is like that and it was terrifying to be up there, knowing that a world medal wouldntjust mean we were world medallists but also qualified a spot for the Olympic Games in Great Britain so massive relief and the job done. That is all the sport for now. Then, isaidi that is all the sport for now. Then, i said i wouldnt talk about the cricket, but i think they are still in downing street, hopefully being better behaved than michael vaughans team where 14 years ago after winning the ashes. Freddie fli ntoff got after winning the ashes. Freddie flintoff got up to no good in the garden. Studio we dont need to rake over the past i think they had to rake over a few things after that laughter iam sure laughter i am sure they are behaving themselves tonight, no doubt about it. Thank you very much indeed. Theresa may has strongly criticised President Trump after he posted those tweets saying four Democratic Congress women should go back to where they came from. Three of them we re where they came from. Three of them were born in the United States while one of the women is from somalia but moved to america as a child. Nick brya nt moved to america as a child. Nick bryant reports now from washington. Donald trump was made in the usa business event at the white house today, showcasing the kind of economic nationalism that has become a hallmark of his America First presidency. But it is his White Nationalism that has caused the latest political storm, a racist political attack aimed at four women of colour, three of whom were born in the usa. So interesting to see progressive Democratic Congress women who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe now telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful people on earth, how our government should be run. Why dont they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from where they came . These people that in my opinion hate our country. Now, you can say what you want. But get a list of all of the statements they have made and if they are not happy here, they can leave. These are the women he took aim at, dressed in suffragette white during the president s state of the union address. Only ilhan omar, a congresswoman originally from somalia, was born out of the United States. He relies on racism, division and the sentiment to consolidate power because he does not have a positive vision of the future in america. I want you to know that you belong, that this is our country, and no amount of hate filled bullying from the white house is going to change that. We will fight that together and become stronger for it. Applause for the president and no criticism from republicans some actually amplified his attack. But a stiff rebuke from downing street theresa mays spokesperson calling it completely unacceptable. Lets get the views of richard wilf, a political commentator and biographer of president obama. He is in our new york studio tonight. Thank you for being with us. Theresa may saying here that these views are com pletely u na cce pta ble may saying here that these views are completely unacceptable and they have been castigated pretty much, his tweets around the world. What do you make of them . They are plainly offensive and racist and they are designed to drive a wedge between the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, and these four women of colour who have been critical of nancy pelosi. Apart from being very defensive, the strategy has worked. If one thing will paper over the cracks between the democrats it is opposition to this kind of racist sentiment. You wrote a column for the guardian saying if there is an immigrant who has failed to integrate in america, it is donald trump. Could you explain what you are saying in that piece . He is expressing distinctly un american sentiments, and success of republican and democratic president s have acknowledged their own immigrant roots, and they acknowledge that donald trump comes from a german and scottish family, has married not one but two immigrant wives, and his kids have names not considered traditionally american. You would consider that his predecessors have welcomed immigrants, and to push out immigrants, and to push out immigrants and suggest that people who are american are somehow not really and eric and is distinctly un president ial and un american, and when you combine that with what he has been saying about the First Amendment somehow not really american. If it is praising him, it is fine, if it is criticising him it is fine, if it is criticising him it is not free speech. You run into this winter cheer really everything to do with donald trump and his nationalist politics. That is to say, not in the mainstream, not where american president s have been. You spoke about what you think are the reasons for this twitter tie read, if you like, in terms of him trying to divide the democrats, but do you think it is also because the next president ial election is approaching, that perhaps he is beefing up some of his nationalist rhetoric, trying to appeal to his base . Well, he has certainly energised his base. Looking at the polls consistently, he has lost that middle ground, lost the idea there are even persuadable voters. Most americans have made up their minds about him. Obviously he has his supporters but they are nowhere near the 50 mark, they are barely scratching a0 . So he really has to energise his base to show up in larger than usual numbers and clearly what he has done throughout both his previous president ial campaign and his entire presidency is to try to generate the kind of support from people who feel that nobody else is saying what he would say, and that is because it doesnt appeal to the majority and it is so out of the mainstream for american politicians. Just briefly, you are saying if you cant energise that base, he is at risk of losing the next election, obviously depending on who the democrats put up against him . Half of americans have already said they will definitely not vote for donald trump. That doesnt leave him much room for error so he really does have to turn out as many of his die hard supporters as possible. This is one way to do it but nobody has ever got re elected by doing this kind of thing before. Richard wolffe, very good to talk to you. Thank you so much for being with us. A serial thief who drugged and robbed victims after meeting them on gay dating apps has been convicted of murdering businessmen at his home in south london. Ajury at businessmen at his home in south london. A jury at the old bailey found gerard matebook guilty of murder with an overdose and a sedative of the dangerous ghb. He had previously admitted selling this to the serial killer steven port gerard matabu. Our correspondent was in court. Murdered for his bank cards, his phone and a few bottles of wine. Business executive and part time actor Eric Michaels. His killer was gerry matovu. They had met using the gay dating up grindr. They are seen here shopping in sainsburys on the way back to Eric Michaels house. There gerry matavou drugged him with ghb to rob him but gave him a fatal dose of the dangerous sedative, sometimes used as a chem sex drug. Eric michaels sons described the familys loss. I will never meet anyone like him again in my life. And losing him has been like losing a limb. The police knew all about Gerald Matovu. He had sold drugs to steven port, the notorious ghb serial killer. Today we can reveal that he had even drugged and robbed port himself before port was arrested for killing four men, prompting this misspelt exchange on whatsapp. But Gerald Matovu did go on robbing people with drugs. After killing Eric Michaels, he brazenly left with a suitcase of loot. He is a liar, hasler, a thief. He is a liar, a hussler, a thief. He had no regard for a persons welfare, no regard at all for their life. Because he is using a dangerous drug to facilitate his crimes. Five times Gerald Matovus previous robberies using ghb had been reported to police, but the investigators were limited. For example, at this east london hotel last may he targeted a dutch businessman. Here he drugged him and stole all his possessions, including his clothes, his laptop, his mobile phones and his bank cards. He even took the flat Screen Television and the toilet brush from the hotel bedroom. But police failed to identify the man who had drugged his victim into unconsciousness, even though it wouldve been easy to do so from his grindr account. I do not understand why it was not followed up at that time because we might not be where we are today if it was. Itsjust a shame our dad had to die for them to go and find him basically. Erics sons want Police Forces to take cases where people are drugged much more seriously, and they want the law changed to recognise just how lethal ghb can be. Daniel sandford, bbc news. Half past eight is the time. Lets look at the weather with ben roach. Lets look at the weather with ben rich. Things are not going to be changing over the next few days but for today many of us were dry, we saw increasing amounts of sunshine and as we go through tonight we keep hold of some clear skies. It will allow one or two mist patches to form. More cloud pushing in here, that can produce the odd spot of rain by the time we get to the end of the night. Temperatures holding up of the night. Temperatures holding up in double digits but a little bit chilly for some central and eastern areas in the countryside. Tomorrow, any earning early mist, clearing, this band of showers, the extra moisture might spark off a heavy shower into the afternoon. Many places staying dry and pretty warm, 22 degrees in aberdeen, 26 in london. As we head to the end of the week things turn increasingly u nsettled week things turn increasingly unsettled and some pretty windy weather on friday. Hello again, you are watching bbc news with me, ben brown, the headlines. Englands world cup winning cricketers are at downing street this evening, as they continue their celebrations. The tory leadership contender is jeremy huntand tory leadership contender is jeremy hunt and Boris Johnson tory leadership contender is jeremy hunt and borisjohnson take part in the second and final head to head debate of the conservative Party Leadership campaign. President trump, who has been accused of making racist remarks about four Democratic Congresswoman has intensified the by accusing them of being anti american. A serial thief who targeted victims through gay dating apps has been found guilty of murdering a businessman with an overdose of the drug, ghb. In pioneering surgery, doctors in london have successfully separated twin girls who were born joined at the head. Its one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. And coming up on the reek of the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon, well be finding out what it was like for the families left back on earth. Anorexia is an eating disorder that can anorexia is an eating disorder that ca n d estroy anorexia is an eating disorder that can destroy lives. Teenage girls and young women are particularly vulnerable to what has long been considered a mental illness, but now scientists at Kings College london say it may also be a partly physical illness as well. New Research Shows that change is hard wired into peoples dna alters the way they processed fats and sugars, making it easierfor them to starve processed fats and sugars, making it easier for them to starve their bodies. Our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports. Laura shah is in recovery from anorexia. She was diagnosed when she was 15 yea rs she was diagnosed when she was 15 years old. She was so sick she had to be taken out of school, and cared for full time to be taken out of school, and cared forfull time at home. To be taken out of school, and cared for full time at home. Mentally, it was probably the most horrific thing ive been through. The trauma that you put yourself through, and just the mental torment every day, it does seem never ending and i can see why People Struggle to recover from it. Anorexia is largely considered to bea it. Anorexia is largely considered to be a psychiatric illness, but a major new study published in the journal nature genetics suggest it may also be linked to their metabolism, the way a person processes food and utilises energy. The dna of almost 17,000 patients across 17 countries was analysed by scientists. The metabolic picture we see in anorexia, we dont fully understand yet, but it does seem that people with anorexia are genetically predisposed towards having a lower bmi, towards having lower body fat, towards having a decreased risk of type two diabetes, and towards having higher levels of good cholesterol. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. It is estimated to affect at least 43,500 women and girls of the uk and 14,500 boys and men. 46 of those with the illness go on to recover, 33 eventually see symptoms improve, but for 20 of patients, treatments dont work and they remain chronically ill. This is they remain chronically ill. This is the symbol for eating disorder recovery. The symbol for eating disorder recovery. Laura says she makes a daily effort to stay well and this tattoo is her signal to do so. This research, which sheds a light on why some people dont have internal signals warning them when they are dangerously malnourished, may help develop new treatments and save lives. Sophie hutchinson, bbc news. How do you stop children from seeing online pornography . Today was supposed to be the day when the uk became the first country in the world to bring into force a law that would block under 18s from viewing pawn online. Its been delayed for months and now the bbc has learned there are concerns over a potential conflict of interest between the online pornography sites and the Age Verification Technology developed to protect children. Our correspondent has this report. Watching, sharing, stumbling across explicit sexual material online is a problem. The Childrens Charity the nspcc says its latest Research Shows that two thirds of 15 to 16 year olds have seen thirds of 15 to 16 year olds have seen pornography. The effect can be damaging, say campaigners child net. They interviewed children and teenagers. Their thoughts have been voiced by these actors. Once i started, i wanted to see more. I couldnt stop myself. It was actually really horrible. The others started crowding around to watch and then they started saying things like, women are always up for it. You are going to see it sooner or later, whether you like it or not. Its everywhere, and you can find it so easily. It was to prevent that harm to kids that the government introduced guidelines, as part of a new law, the Digital Economy act. It aims to force pawn sites to put up rigorous age checks. So a company that you probably never heard of but has its uk offices here said it had come up with a solution. That company is called mind geek. It said it had come up with a software called ajaidee it had come up with a software called a jaidee that would block under 18s from accessing pawn sites. So far, so good, but mind geek also has another arm to its operation. It says it owns a portfolio of world class says it owns a portfolio of world class online entertainment, and roughly translated, that means that it owns some of the Worlds Largest pawn sites, and there are some people that believe thats troubling, because it creates a potential conflict of interest. M would be a bit like putting a fox in charge of the henhouse. Their interest is going to be making it as easy as possible for their consumers to access their site. The age blocks should have come into force today. The government now says it sorry for the delay. It didnt follow the right eu we should have notified, under this directive, the specific legislation which sets up the age verification requirements, and im afraid we didnt. I know it sounds incompetent. Mistakes do happen, and im terribly sorry that it happened in such an important area. Last year, just one mind geek owned pawn site made the site millions of pounds. In a statement, it said, it is not in our interest to have children visiting our sites, so there is no conflict of interest. Mind geek told the bbc age id softwa re mind geek told the bbc age id software is ready live in germany but it will not apply it to its uk sites until the uk comes into force. Two years ago, twin sisters were born in pakistan, joined at the head. It is an incredibly rare condition, but now surgeons at great ormond street hospital in london have successfully separated the girls. The surgery was so complex it was performed over several stages, totalling more than 50 hours, and involving a huge team of doctors. In the first of three reports this week on conjoined twins, our medical correspondent fergus walsh and producer Rachel Buchanan have had exclusive access to the family and the surgery, and their report, which includes pictures of the operation and the girls, does also contain some flashing images. So we have one case today, two kids, one case. They are in thisjourney case today, two kids, one case. They are in this journey together. In orderfor one of them are in this journey together. In order for one of them to do well, they have both got to do well. Joined at the head, they have never seen joined at the head, they have never seen each other. This is the start ofan seen each other. This is the start of an incredible journey, seen each other. This is the start of an incrediblejourney, aimed at giving them independence. It is october 2018 at great ormond street hospital. Their mum has been praying for this day for nearly two years. They are known as what is known as quiney opaque as twins, their skull is one long tube. Its incredibly rare. The 21 month old girls have separate brains, but are misshapen. The surgery is so complex, it will happen in three stages over several months. The twins wont be physically separate until the final operation. So we can see the artery work to do anything to it will use the microscope. Each twin is supplying the others brain with blood. Cutting these connections is dangerous and will take two operations to complete. So the artery has been clamped. The twins have been in the theatre now for more than seven hours, and there are still several hours of this operation to go. So far, everything is going to plan, and both girls are doing well. The central segment will be our richard keel. The frame is made from pieces of the twinss skull, which can be detached in later operations. Being older, they are later operations. Being older, they a re pretty later operations. Being older, they are pretty active, so whatever we do really has to be Strong Enough to resist the twisting and bending forces they will be putting on their heads. The twins are from pakistan. Ideally, the surgery should have been done a year earlier, when healing ability is strongest, but there were delays finding a donor to pay the medical costs. Despite the risks, the family and doctors believe it is right to go ahead. Risks, the family and doctors believe it is right to go aheadm is clearly very difficult to go through head when you are joined together like that. So it does make a very persuasive case in favour of attempting the separation. The family are very clear on that. Attempting the separation. The family are very clear on thatm attempting the separation. The family are very clear on that. If we felt there wasnt a very high chance we could do it safely, wed be thinking quite carefully about whether we should do it or not. And i think the whole team feel there is an excellent chance of a successful separation here. Models of the twinss brains and shared skull have been created using a 3d printer. For surgeons, it is massively helpful, so actually being able to touch and hold things makes it so much difference to understanding how things are. This hemisphere, the right hemisphere of the brain, is standing up, so this is actually projecting into the other childs skull. What we need to achieve is effectively untwisted the brains, and thats difficult, pretty difficult to dojust and thats difficult, pretty difficult to do just in your head. And this is surgery without scalpels. Absolutely incredible, this is exactly what we wanted. Using virtual reality. It works, it really works. So now we can see a whole lot more information, a level of detail we have not been able to access previously. This is clearly the way of the future. A month after the way of the future. A month after the first operation, the twins are backin the first operation, the twins are back in theatre. Surgeons have to finish separating their shared blood vessels. But ours heart begins to fail. They fear losing her. We are not stable but we are less unstable. They re good we are not stable but we are less unstable. Theyre good enough for me. The crisis passes, because one is that we could win, they give her a major blood vessel to increase her chances of survival. But it disadvantages safa shortly after the 20 oh operation, she has a stroke. We we re very 20 oh operation, she has a stroke. We were very close to losing her. She stayed in that critical state for 48, 72 hours after the surgery. It was a very difficult time for the girls, theirfamilies and it was a very difficult time for the girls, their families and the entire team looking after them. But after a lengthy time in intensive care, both twins pulled through. The last two months after their last operation on the brain has been a little bit of a stormy time for safa and marwa, but they are hanging in there, and both reasonably well. The next challenge will be to separate the girls. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Just to let you know, you can see the second pa rt you know, you can see the second part of that report as the twins are finally separated tomorrow night on bbc news. We are going to discuss this extraordinary operation now with dr brian cummings, chair of the paediatric, ethics and associate chief of paediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital of children and joins us now for boston. Thank you for being with us. Ground breaking surgery, as we have seen, pioneering surgery, but what are the ethics of this, in your opinion . These are very challenging cases, as your story detailed. These cases, as your story detailed. These cases are very rare and always gather a lot of interest. Throughout history, how can we separate them and try to create when we have this unusual situation of people join together, how can we create two separate individuals . Sometimes it is straight forward and sometimes it isnt, and we have to ask ourselves that even technically we can separate them, is it something we should pursue . And this is a very challenging situation where the children arejoined challenging situation where the children are joined together at the head with a lot of potential neurologic comp locations. When you say the question is should we proceed with this, what are the arguments against proceeding with this . Is your story mentioned, one of the biggest arguments is this is a big undertaking, 50 hours of surgery. A big undertaking, 50 hours of surgery. You need multiple surgeons and other caregivers to make this a success. So you are asking much time in the operating room, big expense, a lot of peoples time and effort, sometimes at the expense of other things going on in the hospital. So it is important to think about that before going forward. Is this something that is going to be successful or is putting all that effort forward going to likely end up effort forward going to likely end up in effort forward going to likely end upina effort forward going to likely end up in a bad outcome . So we often need to talk about that and be very honest with parents and their caregivers about what is the likelihood of our success. Caregivers about what is the likelihood of our successlj caregivers about what is the likelihood of our success. I was told this series of operations cost close to £1 million, but it has been paid for by a private donor. As part of the point that as well as benefiting the girls it is actually benefiting the girls it is actually benefiting medical science that we are learning, and the surgeons are learning much more about incredible brain surgery like this, and making real medical advances . Oh, and that is certainly an excellent point. I am not advocating we should not separate these children, its just we have to be thoughtful. If you go back 50 years ago this was not even possible. We have been able to separate most types of conjoined twins that are connected at the level of the chest, the abdomen, the pelvis, and now we can actually do it at the level of the brain. It is still a very risky surgery. But each case we learn more and more about what is possible, and this very stepwise approach is what has shown to in other cases. One of the other ethical considerations is judging between the two patients, the two girls in this case, because as we heard of that report, they switched the blood from the stronger of the girls to the weaker, and the stronger one then suffered a stroke asa stronger one then suffered a stroke as a result. So you are kind of making ethical choices all the time. Yes, and this is something you have to make choices in the operation itself and you cant really predict whats going to happen. The biggest risk of this operation is they can have a blood clot and a stroke so you have to make choices about which twins will get which blood vessel. You try to do that in the most even mannered way going forward, because you want to look going into surgery which child has the best chance of survival, based on anatomy. How is the brain structured, so you can make these choices going in so you are not surprised and try to do a Fair Distribution of each of the blood vessels. Go to talk to you, fascinating. Dr brian cummings, chair of paediatric ethics and associate chief of paediatrics at massachusetts general children of hospital, thank you. Thanks for having me. You can read more on the story on the bbc news website and also the bbc news app. You can read the battle to separate safa and ma rwa the battle to separate safa and marwa by our bbc news producer Rachel Buchanan on the website. More now on that dramatic victory in the cricket by england in the cricket world cup. The win will have inspired many young fans, as we were saying earlier, but will significant numbers of new players be encouraged to ta ke numbers of new players be encouraged to take up cricket . Danny savage has been to cumbria where a man of the match ben stokes went to school to find out more. In years to come, legible will have at the cricket world cup was won on the fields of cockermouth school, for this is where a young ben stokes spent his formative years. We could be batting in the same crease as him, it shows we could make it an player may be on lords one day. Chris retires from a lifetime of teaching this week. Former pupil ben stokes was something special. Ben will always be the standout person that i ever was associated with, because obviously of what he has gone on to be. Is not just obviously of what he has gone on to be. Is notjust a cricketer, an england cricketer, is a world class cricketer, and to be associated with a world class performer is quite special. A few miles away, a Primary School tournament was being played this afternoon. Seven to ii year olds who love their cricket. Umpiring and encouraging wasjohn gibson. Six notjust a cricket coach but a key figure in nurturing a young ben stokes. For the game started, i thought i know what will happen, he will either be out for a duck or win the game for us. And i was worried, all the way through. I didnt think we had quite got enough runs but i knew there would be one person who wasnt worried, and ben would not give up, even if he needed seven of the last ball, he would think they might bowl a no ball i will hit for six was not ben sto kess will hit for six was not ben stokess New Zealander parents were pretty impressed too. He just doesnt stop and he was like that as a kid as well. He just always wants do well. He is a really, really big team man. He now now be a cricket superstar but here they dont forget where the boy started. Danny savage, bbc news, cumbria. This week marks 50 years since the historic moment when the first man, neil armstrong, set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 neil armstrong, set foot on the moon. The apollo 1 mission represented in armstrongs own words a giant leapfor represented in armstrongs own words a giant leap for mankind, with the world watching and marvelling, including the astra nots families. Just months after apollo 11, alan bean became the fourth man on the moon as part of apollo 12. Heres his wife and daughter talking to the bbc about their memories of that moment in 1969. Men were leaving the earth to land on the ocean of storms. My father is alan bean and he was the lunar module pilot on apollo 12, fourth man to walk on the moon. Our neighbourhood was very close to nasa. Everyone was either an engineer, flight controller or physician. Our neighbourhood had a very focussed goal. We didnt really think about it that much. Ijust knew he was training to go into space. Launch date was very exciting. It was a rainy day. We huddled all together, my mother, my grandmother, my brother and i. He trained seven and a half years. We were just excited that it was finally going to happen. We had been waiting for so long. 3, 2, 1 zero. All engines running, commence lift off. Then when it goes, the birds fly and its so much noise and the ground shakes. Roger, roger, bye bye. See you on the other side. Have fun. We just went on to school, because thats what you were supposed to do. Mom tried to keep our normal routine as kids. And of course we were enjoying the moment and being there, but, we still have to keep doing what were supposed to do, and that was important to my dad. You always have in the back of your mind that something could go wrong, and he told me, remember im doing what i always loved, so dont worry. And i did have great confidence in his skill. We would rather him do what he loved, even if it had a big risk. I cant believe it. Amazing go for landing. The day he landed on the moon it was about 12. 30 houston time, and we were alljust sitting around, watching the tv, and hoping for the best. No one else can tell you i love you to the moon and back and really mean it, and i know that that was true. So often he would say how his thoughts would drift back to his family. When he was on the moon, he looked up and saw that earth and thought, gosh, you know, everybody i love is over there. When alan first got home, he had lost a lot of weight. He was a finicky eater and eating that space food was not his thing. You know, he didnt talk about it a lot when he came home, not because he wasnt proud or anything, but he kinda just wanted to be with his family, you know. When you see somebody thats been working so hard and has such a dream, we just knew how hard hed wored and we had too, mostly my parents, you know, they had made a lot of sacrifices. He really did love to us the moon and back, and, well, i think hes still up there, thinking about us. Right, now, let me tell you about a huge waterspout that was spotted off the coast of corsica today. A resident in bastia captured this video showing rising from the ocean, while they are relatively common in the french island, local media report has been placed on orange alert for storms and rain. A waterspout is a whirling column of airand water waterspout is a whirling column of air and water that occurs over a body of water and quickly dissolves over dry land. Sounds like the a nswer to over dry land. Sounds like the answer to a quiz question. A relatively rare phenomenon according to meteorologists. Now we have our own meteorologist to tell us what the weather is. Ben rich. For many parts of the uk it turned into a Beautiful Day with blue skies overhead. This is how it looked for one of our weather watchers on the coast of aberdeenshire. But dont get too used to the weather you had to start the week, because there are changes on the way. After that dry and warm start things will be turning increasingly wet and actually quite windy as the week wears on. You can see the unsettled weather lying in wait in the atlantic, clumps of cloud on the satellite picture, fended off by an area of High Pressure but as that high retreats, the frontal systems will make more progress over the next couple of days. The first one actually working its way in from the west right now well see some cloud and some outbreaks of rain perhaps across Northern Ireland and western scotla nd across Northern Ireland and western scotland through the night. Many spots will be dry with some clear spells, and it will turn into a relatively cool night across some rural spots in central and Eastern England but further west with the extra cloud not as chilly. Just a bit more in the way of cloud and some extra moisture which could allow the odd shower to break out as we get to the afternoon. For many, a dry day with lots of sunshine, and those temperature is a little bit higher than they were today. As we move out of tuesday into wednesday, here comes the next frontal system. This one will have a bit more life about it. Fairly heavy and potentially thundery rain pushing its way across Northern Ireland and the western side of scotland as the day wears on. With that the winds will start to pick up as well but further east, eastern scotland, particularly in london and wales, a bit more in the way of high cloud streaming in, still some spells of sunshine and while North Western areas will turn a little cooler, further south and east it will be another one day with highs of 25 or 26 degrees. For thursday, this front swings its way, but as we get into friday, this next developing weather system friday, this next developing weather syste m loo ks friday, this next developing weather system looks like bringing a dose of wet weather yes, but also some unseasonably windy weather. For a time at least they will turn a bit cooler as well. Hello, im ros atkins. This is outside source. President trump is digging in after those racist remarks about four democrats. If you hate our country, if you dont like our country, if youre not happy here, you can leave. In a tweet he told the congresswomen of colour to go back to the countries they came from. Heres what one of them had to say. He relies on racism, division and anti immigrant sentiment to consolidate power because he does not have a positive vision for the future of america. We will hear from the two contenders to become the uks next Prime Minister on what they think of President Trumps racist tweets