This is bbc news. Im lukwesa burak. The headlines at 11 00 on their way home around 35 british passengers have disembarked the diamond princess, after more than two weeks in quarantine, off the coast of japan. We are coming home, we are seeing oui we are coming home, we are seeing ourfamily and we cannot we are coming home, we are seeing our family and we cannot wait but also ina our family and we cannot wait but also in a way it is strange, it feels as though it has been our home for a long time. Royals no more prince harry and meghan wont be allowed to use the word, as a brand name. Life addicted to prescription painkillers we have a special report, as campaigners say more must be done to understand their impact. My my pain in my hip got a bit better. I started to notice a still had all of these issues i put down to my pain buti of these issues i put down to my pain but i think they were more related to pain medication. Coming up, going to disneyland hundreds of thousands of pounds raised for this young man after a video revealing the impact of bullying captured hearts all over the world. And at 11 30, well be taking an in depth look at the papers, with our reviewers the left wing author and columnist, Yasmin Alibhai brown, and benedicte paviot, anglo french broadcaster and correspondent for france 24. Stay with us for that. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. Dozens of british citizens have finally been allowed to leave a cruise ship, where theyd been held in quarantine injapan for more than two weeks, due to the coronavirus. Theyve disembarked from the diamond princess, after being confined mainly to their cabins. Its thought about 35 of the 78 britons will be flown back to the uk overnight, and on arrival probably in wiltshire, theyll head for quarantine to Arrowe Park Hospital on the wirral. 0ur correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes is in tokyo, where a plane is standing by to bring the britons home. But large aircraft you can probably see over my shoulder is a one supposed to be taking the 35 britons back to the uk. It was supposed to ta ke back to the uk. It was supposed to take off half an hour ago and why it has not so far we do not know. A lot of evacuations apply to this week and a lot have been delayed. The americans left five days ago, on
monday morning, the australians left on wednesday and ever has been some criticism of the British Government for the length of time it has taken to organise this evacuation but finally at around 1 30am this morning, they began leaving the ship and that evacuation operation finally got under way. They have had to wait longer than almost anyone else to get off the diamond princess tonight, finally, after 17 days of isolation, the british passages were loaded onto buses and began the long journey home. On board one of the buses, Elaine Spencer and her husband. They recorded this thank you message. Thank you to the government for deciding to bring us home. We are coming home, we are seeing ourfamily home. We are coming home, we are seeing our family and home. We are coming home, we are seeing ourfamily and we cant home. We are coming home, we are seeing our family and we cant wait, but also in a way it is strange, it feels it has been our home for all that time. Thank you. Thank you. Hopefully we will be home and i will see ourfamily in the hopefully we will be home and i will see our family in the next couple of weeks. Nearby in his cabin, alan sa nford weeks. Nearby in his cabin, alan sanford told me he and his wife are feeling the strain of such a long confinement. We have not stepped out of this cabin since were quarantined on the fourth of february and it is 110w on the fourth of february and it is now the 21st, even though the quarantine on that ship is over, were going to go in an aeroplane back to the wirral and another 1a days of quarantine. That would make 31 days altogether. We are going to have to deal with that, there are people worse off in the world but, the thought that we are only halfway through it. The passengers are now have to spend another 1a days in quarantine when they get back to the quarantine when they get back to the quarantine having spent two weeks or more shut in their cabins on board the ships. But what we have seen from the americans and australians, some of the passengers who have
tested negative when they left the ship are now testing positive when they got back home. 164 australians flew back to darwin on wednesday. Two of them have now tested positive to the virus and been sent to hospital. As you know, we carefully screen everybody before they left the ship, before they got on the plane and during the flight but, as people also know, that has been ongoing detection of infection on the diamond princess cruise ship over the last few days so it is not unexpected that some people might have been incubating the virus. Meanwhile, in south korea the number of cases of the virus has lept by 100 in the last 24 hours and the second death has been reported. The outbreak is thought to have begun this church. The streets of the city and out empty and a massive disinfecting operation is under way. As dawn approached the tokyo airport, the big planes sent to pick up airport, the big planes sent to pick up the british evacuees were still sitting at the gate. The 35 british eva cu ees sitting at the gate. The 35 british evacuees apparently on board, still waiting a little longer for the last leg of their long journey long to begin. As we can see, that plane is still sitting on the tarmac. It is hopefully just a still sitting on the tarmac. It is hopefullyjust a minor glitch. They will flight 12 hours to wilshere and then transferred to buses for the long drive up the m6 to the wirral. A long and tiring journey ahead for the britons. The duke and duchess of sussex, have confirmed theyll stop using the word royal, as a brand name, after giving up their official roles, as senior members of the family. The decision means the couples application to trademark sussexroyal has been cancelled, and their non profit organisation
wont be named sussex royal foundation. 0ur royal corresondent johnny diamond explained just how far this is from the sussexes vision of theirfuture. They thought they could create a kind of half in, half out role, a kind of half in, half out role, a kind of half in, half out role, a kind of part time royal role, a hybrid role, still continue to serve the queen, carry out royal functions but have the freedom to go off and achieve some sort of independence and live out of the country for large amounts of the time. Now they have ended up really completely on the outside. Yes, of course, there is still the family role, the private role and they are clearly a lwa ys private role and they are clearly always going be members of the private role member but publicly there is no role at all. No tours, no titles. There will not be able to use the word royal and they will not call their foundation any of that will not have the word royal on it, it will not be sussexroyal. It is
a long way from what they intended. Does it matter . Surely were talking prince harry, the image of the couple. To some degree but in another way they become just another set of celebrities. Royalty is different. I am set of celebrities. Royalty is different. Iam notjust set of celebrities. Royalty is different. I am notjust saying it because i am a royal correspondent. It just is different. Because i am a royal correspondent. Itjust is different. It lifts you above the common celebrity. It is different from being a film star, a social media star. So losing that a royal, which i am pretty sure they wa nted royal, which i am pretty sure they wanted to hold onto, is a blow and it does in some way, in celebrity term, diminish. When you look at this, it sounds as if the brand of the royal family is being protected
here but we are going to be seen the couple back in a few weeks time . We will see them do really a last hurrah. A mix of the ceremonial, which will be the end point and perhaps the most serious point, the pppy, perhaps the most serious point, the pppyr we perhaps the most serious point, the poppy, we note prince harry is going to pop in with a recording withjon bonjovi, the invictus games. It is a few days and it will be busy and it will be the last hurrah and a sign also of what we are about to lose. Campaigners say much more dedicated support is needed, for those in the uk, addicted to prescription drugs. Almost a Million People on medication, including tranquillisers, drugs for insomnia, and nervous disorders, have been taking them for at least three years, and, of those, more than half
a million are on strong painkillers known as opioids, even though theres no evidence they help patients after 90 days. In the worst affected areas of the uk, the nhs is now running campaigns, urging people to seek help. But as jeremy cooke reports, many are still struggling, to get the care they need. This is my diazepam for this morning. Thats valium. Jim has a problem. Whats next . Antidepressant. A drug problem. Citalopram, carbocisteine, 0ndansetron. This is montelu kast, to help me breathe. All of these, all on prescription, several times a day. Nitrazepam, which is a benzo psychoactive. His life is dominated by his total dependency on prescription drugs. Morphine, which i take three times a day. I just. Including powerful opioid painkillers. Is this too much . This would probably overdose most people. Are you addicted . Yeah. Jim was badly burned when he was eight. The pain meant prescription painkillers. And hes still on them. 35 years, ive been taking these every day. Do they work for you . Ill be honest, i dont know what works and what doesnt work any more. This pain map of britain shows thatjim is not alone. Theres a very clear north south divide. Manchester University Research reveals prescription painkiller hotspots in our poorest communities. And patients staying on the drugs often for way too long. We see an increasing amount of patients using opioids for long term. But using for long term, there is no evidence to prove they work. All i could think about was the pain and the medication and it consumes your life. Jazz is 23 and already with a ten year history of using prescription painkillers. Her hip dysplasia brought serious, chronic pain. Her doctors knew that opioids, pregabalins and other drugs could relieve the agony. But forjazz, there was a heavy price to pay. I was a child that got put on this, through no fault of my own. And now ive got to go through all of this. Coming off the medication was a million times harder than any of the surgery stuff. Shed become hooked, and with no nhs service available, the best on offer was a place at a centre for street drug heroin addicts. It was suggested for me to go on methadone, to get off my prescribed medication. What did you make of that . Ijust thought it was a bit ridiculous, treating an opioid with an opioid. Itsjust another thing to get addicted to. Jazz is now getting help from her gp and campaigning to stop others getting hooked. In sunderland, that campaign is being piloted on the streets an indication that things are changing. The government now requires addiction warning labels
on prescription opioids. But those advising mps want structured, comprehensive support for all of those at risk. We need a helpline so people can get hold of information, get hold of help. We need a referral service, so gps can refer you to an expert who can help you. And we need doctors to have access to alternatives so people dont have to be put on the drugs in the first place. Just morphine in a patch. So ive got one on each arm. Specialist help is whatjim could use. Hes tried hard to come off his medication, but the withdrawal has made him too sick. If i took heroin, theres about 20 services i could use. With this. Wheres the service . Theres none. Because these things will ruin your life. It is hard forjim to accept he will be on drugs for the rest of his life. Harder still to accept the series of medical decisions that led him
here, to all of this. Jeremy cooke, bbc news. Us intelligence agencies are warning that russia is attempting t oinfluence this years president ial election. Thats emerged from a classified briefing to members of Congress Last week. And there are reports in the past few hours that the democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders has been told by us officials that moscow is interfering in his campaign. President trump has dismissed the report say it was another Misinformation Campaign by his opponents. President trump is not happy that Us Intelligence officials are reporting that russia would like him to when the 2020 contest. Russia seemed to favour mr trump over his democratic challenges. At a rally in las vegas today, the president blamed democrats. I was told a week ago,
they are trying to start a rumour. It is this information. That is the only think they are good at, they get nothing done. That Vladimir Putin wants to make sure i get elected. Mr trump reportedly became my rate after hearing about the briefing and on wednesday announced he was replacing mcguire, the king director of national intelligence. Replacing him with the current Us Ambassador to germany. All this when democrats saying they are trying to suppress information that the president does not like. Robert mueller found that moscow interfered ina mueller found that moscow interfered in a sweeping and systematic fashion to boost than candidate donald trump chances. As recently as february the fifth, the fbi director had this to say. Director of the russians
interfering in our election right now . We certainly are seeing and have never stopped seeing really since 2016, efforts to engage in malign foreign influence by the russians. Hillary clinton, lost no time that Vladimir Putins pump and was at it again. The president is sensitive to allegations he won with russias help and does not want to hear that russia may be at it again in 2020. Jurors in the Sexual Assault and rape trial of the former american film producer, harvey weinstein, have been told to continue their deliberations, into a second week. Thejurors had asked thejudge if they could reach split decisions on two of the five charges. Butjustice james burke said they should continue to try and reach unanimous verdicts, on all the charges. Proceedings will resume again on monday. The headlines on bbc news
0n on their way home, around 35 british passengers have disembarked the diamond princess after more than two weeks in quarantine off the coast of ro als no more. Prince ro ai wont lore. Prince ro ai wont bee. Prince ro ai wont be allowed to use and meghan wont be allowed to use the word as a brand name. A special report into life addicted to prescription painkillers, as campaigners say more must be done to help people give up the drugs. A woman who supported the banned Islamic State terror group has admitted plotting to blow herself up in an attack on st pauls cathedral. Safiyya shaikh, a 36 year old muslim convert, from hayes in west london, pleaded guilty to preparing an act of terrorism by asking an Undercover Police officer to supply bombs. Safiyya shaikh was also reported to the governments prevent programme amid fears of how dangerous she could become. Hanif qadir is a consultant
in counter extremism and rehabilitation. He has advised the government on the prevent programme and was one of its lead practitioners until 2016. Hes been telling me the progamme has its flaws. The programme is designed to actually prevent individuals from becoming radicalised into violent extremists, into terrorist networks. But it is also about, it is one of the bits of strategy, the ps. Providing mentoring and counselling support to those who have been identified as being radicalised and are heading on a path of destruction, which is known as the channel programme. And this isjust in brief to the prevent programme is about, to actually prevent people from being radicalised. Is it working . Sorry . Is it working . Prevent, you have to understand prevent, you have to understand prevent to really be able to criticise it or celebrated. And i would say prevent is an effective tool. It is an effective programme. However, it depends on how it is being delivered unto who are the ones delivering it. You need to have an experienced you need to have experience, you need to understand the nature and the ideology of the beast you are dealing with. You need to be able to work within communities that have credibility within communities to effectively enable you to work with young men and women in Community Groups and have that trust so that you can move them away from any kind of negative or extremist ideology. It works when it is delivered effectively by experienced practitioners. You will find it working in one area where it will not work in another area. What i would say there is that with time, we have found that practitioners in certain areas are inexperienced, dont understand the nature of the problem too well, and if one link in that. Because it is a community and a multiagency approach that really works. Without the
multiagency approach and with individuals from those multiple agencies having the experience and the knowledge, one person could cause a problem in that whole process. And we found that in certain parts of the country, certain parts of the country, certain practitioners dont have the required experience and knowledge to be able to experience that support the others around the table. Prince charles has visited pontypridd in south wales to visit businesses and residents affected by severe flooding following storm dennis. Elsewhere, heavy rain has caused flash flooding today in parts of scotland. This was be seen in paisley. There is more rain forecast over the weekend, would be met 0ffice issuing a yellow weather warning for parts of Northern England and scotland. With the met office. Some £230,000 has been raised as part of a campaign to send a 9 year old australian boy to disneyland after a video
of his deep distress over being bullied went viral. Yarraka bayles posted the clip of her son, quaden, crying after he was targeted at school for his dwarfism. You might find what youre about to see, upsetting. And this is the impact bullying has, ona and this is the impact bullying has, on a nine year old kid thatjust wa nts to on a nine year old kid thatjust wants to go to school, get an education and have fun. But every single fricking day, something happens. Another episode, another bullying, another taunt, another name calling. The clip, viewed over 14 million times, has triggered an outpouring of support. Parents around the world have shared video messages from their children, and celebrities have also spoken out, including the actor hugh jackman. Quaden, you are stronger than you know, mate. And no matter what, youve got a friend in me. So everyone, lets please be kind to each other. Leading is not ok, period. Life is hard enough. Bullying is not ok. So letsjust remember, every person in front of us remember, every person in front of us is facing some kind of battle, so lets just be kind. The actor Warwick Davies lives with a similar condition to quaden. Ive been getting his reaction to that video. Well, of course it is deeply upsetting to watch, you know, a young child, distressed as quaid and is in that video. Young child, distressed as quaid and is in that video. Quaden. And clearly the result of being bullied. It is really sad to think this sort of thing goes on in todays world, you know . Like to think of ourselves as being a caring, compassionate species, whereas in fact, at the
heart of it, we are really not sometimes. It is hard enough, isnt it, to attend school as a child, those can be some of the hardest yea rs those can be some of the hardest years for people, butjust described to us this added element of living with dwarfism and attending school, a contemporary school . What is it like . Well, absolutely, for any child school is a daunting prospect and can result in bullying. But for somebody with dwarfism or another physical disability, it can be even harder because some children simply cant accept that there are children who are different in the world and see them as a target, see them as being weaker, when in fact these children, more often than not, arent weak. Its just they appear different. You know, it is about education. It is about letting the world know that we all look different but we are all the same on the inside. We have the same hopes, the inside. We have the same hopes, the same dreams, the same love is, the same dreams, the same love is, the same dreams, the same love is, the same fears. And we should all be treated equally. You obviously run a
charity that supports people with dwarfism, you put out amazing work, i know, particularly in the east midlands. What help can schools do to help children, their pupils, who have dwarfism . To help children, their pupils, who have dwarfism . What should they be doing . Well, it is about education andi doing . Well, it is about education and i do go into schools from time to time and i talk to assemblies about my life, my career, and what it has been like living life as a little person. And this can really help, because once children can understand, it normalises the difference and that can be the key to stopping any potential bullying. But also, i think parents have a role to play here. You know, education starts at home and as pa rents we education starts at home and as parents we should all be taking responsibility for our children and for our attitudes in the world, you know . And i think a lot of childrens behaviour actually is Learned Behaviour from their pa rents. Learned behaviour from their parents. So really, it is about the pa rents parents. So really, it is about the parents setting a good example about
being caring, kind, compassionate towards other human beings. Now, for rival football fans, how do you stop runaway liverpool winning all their matches . Well, if youre darra curley, whos 10 and a Manchester United fan from County Donegal in ireland, you simply write to the liverpool managerjurgen klopp. In the letter darra asked would it be possible for the team to lose a few games. As emma vardy reports, no one was more surprised than darra when jurgen klopp replied. Dearjurgen klopp, my name is dara. A letter from the town, just not a fan of liverpool. During a writing project at school, dara raised a grievance. I support man united and the reason i am writing as to complain. Liverpool are winning too many games. If you win nine more games you become the best in english football. Channelling the
frustrations of millions of supporters, he made a sincere request. The next time liverpool player, please make them lose. You should just let the other team score. I hope i have convinced you to not win the leg or a match ever again. I thought, to not win the leg or a match ever again. Ithought, if to not win the leg or a match ever again. I thought, if i to not win the leg or a match ever again. Ithought, if i put to not win the leg or a match ever again. I thought, if i put it on social media it wouldnt really make a difference, so i had a better chance of writing to jurgen a difference, so i had a better chance of writing tojurgen klopp to stop him winning. The plea was received byjurgen klopp, the man who has transformed liverpools fortunes, now unbeaten in 43 premier league games. At the teams s conference today, jurgen klopp said he liked daras letter, even though dara wasnt on his side. It was nice. It was nice, it was cheeky. We had time in the day, so i read the letter and i replied. Unfortunately, on this occasion, he wrote, i cannot grant your request, not through choice anyway. We have lost games in the past and we will lose games in the past and we will lose games in the future. The problem is, when you
are ten years old you think that things will always be as they are now, but if there is one thing i can tell you, at 52 years old, it is that this most definitely is not the case. Before i opened it, i was like, oh, might be jurgen klopp, because it had royal mail on the stamp. And mammys like no, its not. And then i opened it and it wasjurgen klopp but all to daraghs disappointment, liverpool are still on course for premier league glory. He has probably done more interviews today than mr klopp himself which, like football, shows you how unpredictable things can be. Emma vardy, bbc news. And lets just bring you an update concerning the coronavirus story that has been developing over the last few weeks. The 35 british citizens aboard the diamond princess, who were transferred by coach to an airport in tokyo have, we understand, now left japan. Coach to an airport in tokyo have, we understand, now leftjapan. The plan has ta ken we understand, now leftjapan. The plan has taken off. There were 35 people on board. 32 british and a
number of european passengers, i do apologise. So they were evacuated from the diamond princess cruise ship and the plane has now left japan, and we believe it is headed for wiltshire and the patients will then be transferred to arrow Park Hospital on the will for further quarantine. On the wirrell. And well be having a look at tomorrows front pages at11;30 this evening in the papers. Our guests joining me tonight are the author and columnist thats coming up after the headlines at 11 30. Now its time for the weather with ben rich. Hello there. As so often with our weather, we currently find ourselves at the mercy of the jet stream. The ribbon of fast flowing our high up in the atmosphere that separates
warm airfrom cold air, and at the moment, with thejet warm airfrom cold air, and at the moment, with the jet stream racing right across the British Isles, but allows cold air into the north while milderair allows cold air into the north while milder air holds on further south. What the jet stream also does is steer weather systems. Just watch the sequence through the next ten days. The jet stream will continue to push across the atlantic, bringing further bouts of wet and windy weather in our direction. And whenever the jet dips south, remember, there is cold air to the north of it and that will allow things to get chilly and cold enough for some snow at times. So the next ten days will bring more wind and rain and the potential for further flooding. You will have to keep an eye on the forecast if that is an issue where you are. It is going to be rather cold at times, cold enough for some snow. Lets get into the detail. This is saturday. Loud and patchy rain lingering across the far south of england and the channel islands. Shall remain across parts of wales and Northern England, getting into the midlands. Northern ireland and scotland, sunshine and showers, very windy, and the showers
across scotland will be falling snow to relatively low levels. Blizzard conditions over the mountains, and icy surfaces. Treacherous travelling conditions here. A chilly day in the north, with that milder air holding onto the south. The jet stream continues to pass across the British Isles on sunday, bringing us this wriggling waterfront. Thats another dose of rain to come in parts of wales, maybe Northern England, may be the midlands, as we go into the first part of sunday. That rain should move away east through the day. That will allow something drier and brighter, still with one or two showers. We get back into the cooler hour as the day goes on. Temperatures in the afternoon are between six and 11 degrees. As we move out of sunday and into monday, the jet stream will deliver this area of low pressure. This looks like quite a deep low passing just to the north west of the British Isles. As this band of wet weather ru ns isles. As this band of wet weather runs into the cold air, they could be significant snow across parts of scotla nd be significant snow across parts of scotland on monday morning. That is one worth bearing in mind for the monday morning commute. With that
area of low pressure, strong winds, gail