Accusation you want to, as vile as it may be, as damaging as it may be, as untrue as it may be and somehow get away with it. What does this redefine what can and cannot be sent in a tweet . It may well do, martin and that maybe the take away from all this. These last four days of proceedings in the courtroom behind me from which elon musk walked very tall. His only comment, my faith in humanity has been restored. The man he vanquished, Vernon Unsworth, looked ashen as he took to the steps. He said he accepted the jurys verdict and he would have to take it on the chin and get on with rebuilding his life. His lawyers were more outspoken and one made the point it is now open season as far as social media is concerned when it comes to insulting someone. Elon musk had been referred to as a billionaire bully, someone who had dropped a nuclear bomb into Vernon Unsworths life. The defence contended the pedo guy was an insult and not intended as an accusation. Their contention being there was never an intention on the part of elon musk to suggest Vernon Unsworth was in fact a paedophile. Lets get some of the days other news american Musician R Kelly has been charged with bribing a Government Official so that he could marry an under age girl in 1994. The girl is named only as jane doe in the documents, but has widely been identified by us media as singer, aaliyah. They got married when she was 15 and r kelly was 27. The certificate, leaked at the time, listed her age as 18. At least six people have been killed after gunmen ambushed a bus in North Eastern kenya. The somali Islamist Militant Group al shabab says it carried out the attack. Witnesses told the bbc that several armed fighters attacked the bus in Wajir District as it was heading for the ethiopian border. More than a dozen people have been rescued in nairobi after the colla pse rescued in nairobi after the collapse of a building. It is feared more are still buried. A second deadly shooting has taken place at a Us Naval Base in less than a week after a gunman opened fire killing three people. The shooter who has been identified as a member of the Saudi Air Force was in the us for flight training. The gunman was shot dead by officers while several other people were injured. Investigators are looking to see if the shooting was terror related. The attack comes two days after a us sailor killed two civilians at a base in hawaii. Heres our north america correspondent with more on the gunman. We know that he was a saudi citizen, a trainee pilot, a trainee aviator on this base. He had every right to be there, clearly he did not have a right to carry fire arm on the base. This is a large base used as a major Training Centre for us pilots but also from those overseas and especially allies of the united states, which saudi arabia is. That is pretty much all we know about him at the moment. Clearly the involvement of a saudi citizen has raised eyebrows with some who have question whether there was a terror motive here. Investigators are still looking at that and clearly it is still early days. You can find more on our website or download the ppc app. The stash bbc. The leading candidates in the uks upcoming general election have gone head to head in a televised bbc debate. Borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have been making their final pitches to voters, ahead of next thursdays general election. Their policies on brexit and the National Health service have been a focus throughout the campaign as have issues of trust and character. Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg reports. Whose night would it be . The contender, with the crowd, or the man who called this election, who wants to keep his job . Both were arriving for 60 minutes that could make or break a bid to win. The audience, not the rivals, in charge. Starting with a blast against both of them from their former party leaders. Is the john majors recent intervention of worrying to you, is the john majors recent intervention worrying to you, mrjohnson . And is mr blairs recent intervention worrying to you, Jeremy Corbyn . Or are theyjust a couple of old has beans . Unlike mr major, i lead a party now that is totally united. All 630 plus conservative candidates at this election actually back my deal. Totally united because you got rid of anybody who did not agree with you. No, we have a very, very Broad Spectrum of views in our party. I urge then to think for a moment think for a moment at the reality of what nine years of austerity has done to the people of this country. Then, of course, brexit the question of our times. Can you guarantee that it will happen next year . How would we be better off from the brexit deal or a future we will, within three months, negotiate a leave agreement with the European Union that will protect trade and jobs and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. And put that alongside remain in a referendum within six months, and that will be the end of the matter. Everybody on the labour front bench is campaigning to remain, apart from mr corbyn who is neutral on the matter, who is going to secure this deal . How can you get a deal from brussels for brexit if you dont actually believe in it . That is the mystery. What he will do is walk out of a relationship with the eu into a relationship with nobody and that is where the chaos will come. What is your answer to that, Boris Johnson . Im afraid that shows a slight ignorance of the reality. And what of labour claims that the torys brexit deal would hurt Northern Ireland . I do find it slightly curious, to say the least, nick, to be lectured about the union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland by a man who all his life, political life, has campaigned to break up that union and actually supported for four decades the ira in their campaign, violently, to destroy it. What i have done is always wanted to see a Peace Process in Northern Ireland and that is exactly what we have got and thank you to the Labour Government that negotiated it. And then one of the biggest questions this time who and what to believe . What punishment do you think is appropriate for elected politicians who lie during political campaigns . They should be made to go on their knees, down, through the chamber of the house of commons, scourging themselves with copies of their offending documents which claim to prove one thing and actually prove something quite different. Jeremy corbyn . When people paint slogans on the side of a bus that are totally unsustainable, perhaps it is time that we did have an independent monitoring of what goes on. Brief response, mr johnson . Actually if you look at the numbers that we put on the side of the bus, look at the gross figure we paid to the eu, the number is going up. After a torrid campaign, no huge rup, even handshakes at the end, but the hard won results next week will be your decision, not a gentlemans agreement. Laura kuennsberg, bbc news, maidstone. Our Political Correspondent helen catt, in westminster, told me more about the debate and reaction to it. This was interesting in and of itself, this debate. The first time in this election, the first time we have had head to head debates between the two contenders most likely to be prime minister. Previous campaigns we have said larger numbers. This month and today we got no real Game Changing moment but a solid runthrough of issues that have dominated the campaign, the approaches to brexit, to the nhs, the idea of what would happen to it in any post brexit trade deal, how both parties would pay for their plans borisjohnson talking about having more nurses and police. Jeremy corbyn wants a big ambitious scheme to take water and Energy Companies back into state control. Questions dogging both leaders in terms of what happens in terms of prejudice in their party, islamaphobia and anti semitism. The outcome from tonights debate, the poles consistently putting the conservatives ahead of labour and when you are ahead, the last thing you want to do is rock the boat. Steady as you go is what the conservatives were hoping for. Labour could have done with a bit of a game changer that could have given their campaign a boost but still a week out from polling day and as every politician says, the only polling that matters is on election day itself when people vote. There have been no disasters, no major boosts and now we will see what happens next thursday. Joseph mccann chose his victims at random. 11 women and children were attacked. This report contains some details you may find distressing. In the front passenger seat of this car, a 21 year old woman is being kept captive byjoseph mccann. He has grabbed her off the street with a knife to her throat, held her and raped her. She is too traumatised to escape. As he pays for his petrol, this is a man at the start of a perverted mission to attack, terrify and humiliate women and children. Mccann kidnaps this first victim after she leaves this nightclub in watford. Her ordeal lasts five hours. A few days later, in walthamstow, east london, a 25 year old is walking home from this tube station. Mccann spots the woman, her identity is disguised, then stops and seizes her, subjecting her to 14 hours of depravity and violence in his car. Still holding this woman, he moves to edgware in north london and kidnaps a 21 year old off the street. He drives to a pub car park in hertfordshire and, now with two prisoners, he stops and rapes the 21 year old. He then heads to watford and this hotel. Hello hello . Keeping watch on his captives, mccann, wearing rosary beads around his neck, tries to book a room so he can continue his abuse. But, when he returns to the car, one of the women smashes a vodka bottle over his head, and both finally manage to break free. With a manhunt under way, mccann evades capture and travels to the north west. In lancashire, he rapes a girl of 17 and her 11 year old brother after taking them and their mother prisoner. Within hours, in greater manchester, he abducts and rapes a woman of 71, then kidnaps and sexually assaults a 13 year old girl. He crosses into cheshire. In congleton, he grabs two 14 year old girls of the street. In congleton, he grabs two 14 year old girls off the street. Police then spot and chase his stolen fiat. He hits this mercedes. Armed police they lose him, and he abandons his car with the girls in it. Having shaken off the police, he turns up at a pub. He just came in for a drink. Surprisingly, he had a malibu and lemonade. I knew he was a dodgy character when he walked in, because he had quite a sway on him. He asked to use the phone. It was very bizarre. He was writing down a lot of things as well, like postcodes and phone numbers. He is eventually found by police, who catch him hiding up a tree. For hours, there is a stand off, before he is finally brought down and arrested. He tells officers, if youd caught me for the first two, the rest of this wouldnt have happened. Joseph mccann is a horrendously dangerous individual who has shown complete contempt for his victims. He is clearly one of the most dangerous sex offenders, i think, that we have ever seen in this country. Joseph mccanns background makes this case a catastrophic failure by the criminaljustice system. It can now be reported that mccann, who began offending when he was 11, should have been in prison when he was roaming around the country, raping women and children and threatening to slit their throats. He had been wrongly released. In 2008, he was jailed for an aggravated burglary at the home of an 85 year old man. In 2017, he was freed on licence. The same year, he was arrested for new offences and should have been recalled to prison, but he wasnt. In 2018, he was sentenced for his new crimes and should have gone before the parole board before he was considered safe to be freed. Instead, at the start of this year, he was mistakenly let out and, soon after, went on his rampage. Joseph mccann refused to leave prison to attend his trial a controlling individual but, at heart, a coward. He didnt have to hear the testimony and tears of those he abused and face up to the enduring damage he has done to them. June kelly, bbc news, the old bailey. A teenager has pleaded guilty to attempted murder, after a six year old boy was thrown off a viewing platform at the tate modern art gallery in london. Jonty bravery whos 18, hurled the young boy off a tenth floor platform, back in august. Heres helena wilkinson. The six year old boy was with his mother on this tenth floor viewing platform, when out of nowhere a teenager appeared, picked him up, held him over the railings and threw him. He fell 100 feet on to this concrete roof. There was a little commotion with a very loud primal scream. The childs mother then tried to climb the rail. I restrained her and pulled her back. He didnt seem to have any remorse, hejust almost giggled at one point, saying, i did it, yeah, i did it. The boy was treated at the scene, before being taken away by paramedics on a stretcher, under this blue tarpaulin. He suffered a bleed to the brain and life changing injuries. Today, jonty bravery, whos autistic and suffers from a personality disorder, admitted trying to murder the boy. The teenager was under the care of the local authority. After he was arrested by the police, he told them he had planned to hurt someone at tate modern so he could be on the television, and he wanted people to know he was unhappy with the care he was getting. Four months on, and the little boy is still recovering. Today, his parents said. For the family, the horror and trauma they experienced that day will never leave them. Helena wilkinson, bbc news, at the old bailey. This is bbc news, the headlines elon musk is cleared by a jury in a Defamation Case involving a tweet about a british caver. In the last big debate before next weeks uk election, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn clash over security, the economy and brexit. Tens of thousands of people have turned out in madrid for a march demanding action against Climate Change. The environmental activist, greta thunberg, was among those taking part in a un conference along with other Young Leaders of the climate strike movement. Thunberg says World Leaders arent grasping the urgency of the Climate Crisis, and shes calling for concrete action. The bbcs gavin lee reports. The streets of the spanish capital tonight taken over by tens of thousands of protesters who have travelled from all over the globe to be heard on the doorstep of the uns Climate Change conference. Songs and signs in every language make the same point. Unless World Leaders come together to cut greenhouse emissions, these demonstrations will grow louder. They need to be ambitious. They have been too ambitious. They have been too ambitious with our economy and we need now that they will take decisions to be ambitious about the environment, justice, and fairness. I think it is important that the children are also here with us because we are talking about their future. Ten years ago, there were not so many people, and at the and i think that will work. I am optimistic about the future, yes. The hope is not within the walls of the top 25. The hope is out here with you. Arriving overnight from portugal, the poster girl of the movement is escorted by police to get through the press and paparazzi. Her arrival followed a three week sea voyage, her arrival followed a three week sea voyage, sailing by yacht across the atlantic. There are 29,000 delegates at this climate summit, but only one receiving this much attention. It is something incredible to witness the phenomenon of greta thunberg, who has gone from solid protests outside the parliament. I asked greta what she thought had been achieved in 12 months of skipping school and protest. We have been striking now for over a year, and still, basically nothing has happened. The Climate Crisis is still being ignored by those in power. As these protests continue into the night ahead of another week of summit talks, its clear that World Leaders are registering this message has never been so vocal. But few here believe there will be a sudden or significant breakthrough. Climate change is being cited as making wildfires in australia more common. Officials are warning they cant put out a mega blaze raging across a 60 kilometre front, just an hours drive from sydney. And people who cant defend their property from the approaching fires have been told they should leave immediately. Sonia harding is a resident on New South Wales central coast. She says this years fires have been a big concern for people in her region. Its a huge worry, but there are so many fires, and these fires are starting tojoin many fires, and these fires are starting to join together, and you get these enormous fire fronts. The wind can push them any which way and thatis wind can push them any which way and that is when it becomes really unpredictable and our weather hasnt been great either. How are they managing to contain so many fires . |j dont think you can have enough firefighters, i think these fires are now so firefighters, i think these fires are now so huge that theyjust have to do strategic manoeuvres, a lot of these fires are burning in the rain that you cant even get to, huge areas of wilderness and national parks, andi areas of wilderness and national parks, and i was actually chatting toa parks, and i was actually chatting to a friend this morning who is in a very fire affected area, online, and isaid very fire affected area, online, and i said how far are they, and he said its hard to say, could be a day in the wind conditions but i am probably going to be here on my own, and he is an rfs volunteer but the truth is there just arent enough trucks to get to every property and thatis trucks to get to every property and that is not anyones fault. I think the rfs are the most incredible volunteer organisation on the planet but the truth is these fires are so big now that they just cant but the truth is these fires are so big now that theyjust cant help everyone. And the weather is not helping . The winds are still there and there is no sign of any rent to help these players out. We badly need rain, this has been so unbelievably dry and it is like a giant tinderbox. The winds the last few days have been a worry for us because they have been pushing from the west into the east, and that brings the fires closer towards us. With got a few days reprieve where the winds are pushing the fires back on themselves, but id believe next week things are going to get worse again, so we are keeping very much a watching brief on things. A five year old boy in the us state of michigan was so excited to be getting adopted he invited his whole kindergarten class to watch when it happened. The boy, known as michael, formallyjoined his new family at Kent County Court on thursday, with his classmates looking on, waving paper hearts. A little earlier i spoke to james starks, the morning news anchor for the local abc affiliate 13 on your side. This was actually the 23rd adoption day in kent county but the very first time that the judge had Something Like this happen, with 20 or so different kindergartners showing up to show support for a classmate. How long does an adoption process for the adoptive parents often taken michigan . It can take years, honestly. It depends how long that foster process has been going on. Michael with his parents david and andrea, they have been fostering for about a year. It kind of varies by family situation. They clearly came well prepared. They had made little wooden sticks and put some hearts on top . Yeah, honestly, there was not a dry eye in that courtroom, between myself, my camera guy also with me, and of course the family and friends of michael, and when the judge allowed the classmates of michael to give their own words of encouragement to michael, and a lot of them said, thats michael, thats my best friend, i love him. Everybody was definitely quite emotional during that process. And each member of the class were allowed to give their endorsement for michael, were they . Yes, they were. Every single one had something, maybe a little shy to speak in front of such a large crowd, but every one of them expressed their support for michael, and again, when i interviewed michael after the fact, there was a moment where he stole my microphone and yelled i love my daddy, i love my daddy. It was a moment that really took over. I know its a bit of a cliche these days to say stories have gone viral, but this one has. Its getting the clicks around the world. Absolutely, our digital folks told me about 10am this morning it had over 1. 5 million views. I know on my page it has been shared over 2,000 times, about 200,000 views. At this point i have stopped looking at twitter, to kind of check those analytics out. Its a story we all need to see. Im glad its something that i could help get out there and help bring some positive news to the world. James, thank you very much for being part of our show this evening. Thank you. And finally, take a few seconds to watch this heart warming moment when a father turns on his daughters hearing aids first thing in the morning. Thats a very loud hello paul addison, from harrogate in the uk tweeted this video of his four month old daugher reacting to her mothers voice and said using the new hearing aids was like having the lights switched on. Georgina was diagnosed as being severely deaf back in september and now wears a hearing aid in each ear. Lets have a look at the weather with stav danaos. Hello there. It does look like this weekend is going to be a fairly unsettled one, particularly for the second half of the week and, as low pressure takes over, bringing strong winds, Gale Force Winds for many of us, and also showers and long spells of rain, some of which will be heavy in places. I have to stress that weekend doesnt start off on such a bad note, thanks to this ridge of High Pressure, winds will be lighter for a while. To the west, this area of low pressure will arrive late in the day, especially across northern and western areas. For much of england and wales it should be a dry start with some sunny spells around. The further north and west that you are, the clouds will increase through the day, as will be south westerly wind and the rain will begin to pop up, especially across scotland. Heavier in western areas. Temperatures are not bad for this time of year. Highs of around 10 or 11 degrees. Saturday evening and saturday night, more wet and windy weather sweeps across the country. Some heavy rain in places, followed by blustery showers across northern and western areas. Because of the strength of the wind and also the rain and showers, temperatures should not really fall below six or seven. Sunday, this is the pressure chart. You can see how many isobars there are on the charts. It will be a windy day. A real squeeze in the isobars arriving across ireland later on. More on that in a moment. Sunday, it is a bright day, sunny spells around, especially across eastern areas, lots of showers in the north and west, some of them heavy and thundery. Merging together to produce longer spells of rain in places. Some wintriness over higher ground, temperatures in single figures in the north, 10 13 further south. Late on sunday, we will see this area of low pressure, which has been named by the Irish Meteorological Service as storm atiyah, is going to bring a swathe of severe gales across the republic of ireland and into Northern Ireland, wales and the south west, gusts of 70 miles an hour or more in exposure, but very windy spell right across the country. This could cause some disruption. Stay tuned to bbc local radio and subsequent weather forecasts. Very windy on the start of monday as the storm clears off into the near continent. You will notice another ridge of High Pressure trying to build in behind it from the west as the day wears on. It will be a windy day starting monday. Quite a bit of sunshine around. Very windy down the east coast, with further showers through the day. As that wind begins to topple, winds should start to ease and we will see increasing amounts of sunshine. A fairly cool day in the north, just about making double figures in the south. A brief settled spell, because the next spell of wet and windy weather moves in for the tuesday, followed by blustery showers and sunny spells on wednesday. So the weather really is very up and down. This is bbc news. The headlines the co founder of tesla, elon musk, has been cleared of defaming a british cave explorer who hed described as a paedo guy. A jury in los angeles rejected a bid for 190 million in damages by Vernon Unsworth who helped rescue 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in thailand last year. Saudi arabias king has described the killings of three people at a Us Military Base carried out by a saudi gunman as a heinous crime. In a statement, king salman said his country was helping the investigation into the attack in the state of florida. The british prime minister, borisjohnson, and the opposition labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, have taken part in the final televised debate of the general election campaign. Now on bbc news,