steve rosenberg, bbc news, kiev. let s catch up with the weather. thank you very much. afternoon. i will start with a sunny note because there is a lot of cloud today but the best is across scotland, this weather watcher picture proves that. you can see from the satellite and radar showing the rain. a lot of cloud out there. a band of rain moving northwards this morning, didn t amount to very much. there s been a lot of cloud further south too. through the afternoon we will see rain returning in to the west country and towards wales. there will be some sunshine breaking through that cloud as it continues to thin and break in the next couple of hours. the m4 corridor northwards likely to see hefty showers developing, some heavy with hail and thunder mixed in. watch out if you catch one. warm and humid you will notice. there is that rain continuing to push to southern scotland. for much of northern ireland and scotland should and good deal of sunshine, especially western scotla
were identifying cases in isolation, whereas by its very nature, both stalking and harassment occurs as a result of really pernicious and persistent offending. and officers and prosecutors were missing that, which meant that victims were left at risk. our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw, is in the studio. this is not good, is it? it is a terrible report, really, and it shows failings at every stage of the criminal justice shows failings at every stage of the criminaljustice process, from the moment that an allegation of harassment or stalking is made, those crimes are not being reported 01’ those crimes are not being reported or recorded properly, sometimes not being recorded at all. victims are not being dealt with properly, risk assessment are being done and investigations aren t being carried out properly. one of the most disturbing findings from this report is that it says there is concrete evidence that police are issuing warnings the perpetrators, rather than c
checks on borrowers, particularly those in financial difficulties, as a report by the regulator is published this morning. i will have more on that a little later. in sport: england are into the semi finals of the european championships. jodie taylor scored the winner, as the lionesses beat france 1 0. and carol has the weather. good morning. today s the day of sunshine and showers, especially in central and northern areas. they will be fewer and further between them were yesterday. that leads us into a showery start to the week. good morning. first, our main story: thousands of extra mental health workers are to be recruited by the nhs in england. the health secretary, jeremy hunt, said the aim is to treat an extra one million people by 2021. the royal college of nursing has questioned how so many staff can be hired and trained in such a short space of time. here is more from our health correspondent dominic hughes. ministers in england have already acknowledged the treatmen
we ll be talking to the winners and losers. and who would you trust with your bank account. we will need one london digital bank that promises a new way of managing your money. we ask what would be the one thing you change about the bank you use, cheaper loans, better interest rates, faster service? let us know. .just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. good to have you with us. banking is dominating the programme today, get in touch with your thoughts. we are talking about europe s biggest bank, hsbc. one of the world s biggest banks, hsbc, has reported its latest set of earnings and if you re a shareholder you are going to be very pleased with what they have to say today. the bank made a pre tax profit of $5.28 billion in the second quarter of the year that s more than the $4.6 than the $4.6 billion that analysts were expecting. hsbc announced a share buyback of up to $2 billion as it looks to make the most of its huge cash pile. the move will
by being caught now, lives have been saved. number ten tries to stamp out cabinet bickering over post brexit immigration, but is the row over free movement over? are you paying too much for your bank overdraft? the financial watchdog wants fundamental changes. moeen ali s hat trick takes england to a thumping victory over south africa at the oval. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. a step towards safe standing in the premier league, after an influential liverpool fans‘ group voted in favour of the move. good evening from tyne cot cemetery in belgium, where commemorations have been taking place to mark 100 years since the start one of the bloodiest battles of world war i. over three months, british and allied troops clashed with german soldiers in what became known as the battle of passchendaele. in the fields around this cemetery, around 500,000 soldiers, on both sides of the war, were killed, wounded or went missing. as the battle began, torrential r