At their school. And the brit awards are later tonight the british star dua lipa leads the pack with five nominations. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that Police Forces could face new legal action by victims of serious crime, if the Police Investigations were found to be seriously defective. Judges at the Supreme Court gave the ruling, under human rights law, in a case brought by two women who say they were victims ofjohn worboys the serial sex attacker. The police say the outcome means they must set aside more money to cover possible claims for compensation. One lawyer said this was a very bad day for the metropolitan police service, but a positive day for victims in their fight forjustice. Our Legal Affairs correspondent Clive Coleman has more details. For years, john worboys cruised the streets of london in his black cab, looking for women to dupe, drug and sexually assault. This woman, known for legal reasons as dsd, was attacked by worboys in 2003, and was the first to report him
Where actors were asked to wear black, people attending tonights awards are being asked to wear a white rose pin to show support for the anti harassment movement. Time for a look at the weather. Heres susan powell. Some settled weather on the way in the coming days but not to say nothing will change was not quite a big change especially for the start of next week as it is going to feel much colder. But this is the reason for the settled weather at the moment. An area of High Pressure. At the moment it is meaning a lot of fine weather for the afternoon with some patchy cloud still across central areas of england. But from any some bright sunny spells and temperatures already just a any some bright sunny spells and temperatures alreadyjust a shade down on yesterday with highs of around 9 degrees. Tonight the cloud thins out and breaks allowing for quite a widespread frost to develop. Down to around 3 in rural areas. Thursday gets off to a cold but bright start from any. If anything we te
Hugh and the latest from pyeongchang. Without donations from the public they may well have never made it to pyeongchang, now mika moore and misha mcneill have secured teames best ever finish in the womens bobleigh thanks to you susan powell is in front of some big snowdrops. Today we will be forgetting on wind and how the wind from the east could make it feel very bitter next week. Thank you. Also coming up also coming up its the brit awards tonight. And well be hearing from the 22 year old londoner, dua leap a, whos leading the way with five nominations. Hello. Two victims of the black cab rapist john worboys have won a Landmark Legal case against the metropolitan police after officers failed to take action when they reported him. The women were sexually assaulted by worboys in 2003 and 2007 and said their treatment by police who didnt believe them caused them mental harm. The ruling by the Supreme Court means police may now face legal action if they fail to properly investigate serio
Muchas gracias for the new arrangement. This comes as the spat between seoul and washington gets worse over steel tariffs. That is right. It is not only rewriting the free trade arrangement, but now seoul has a wide ranging complaint to challenge the antisubsidy duties slapped on seoul. The tariffs are a whopping 50 . Seoul is crying foul as it does not want countries to be hit by this tariff, while other exporters like japan and canada have been included. This ongoing negotiation between the koreans and the United States on free trade is happening now. Lots of detail on that story. Lets go elsewhere now. The worlds biggest miners seem to be digging up profits by the truck load as well as commodities. With the Global Economy firing on all cylinders theres resurgent demand for everything from coal to copper and this week weve already seen strong numbers from bhp billiton and anglo american. And it seems the worlds number one Mining Company glencore willjoin them when it gives us its lat
Who talks about harper lees new book, go set a watchman. I think its a very good book. The part of me that set out to be an english professor before i got kidnapped by newspapering thinks this is a very significant moment in terms of literary scholarship, and ill tell you why here we get to see the growth process of a writer starting out and feeling her way toward the writer she wanted to be toward the story that she wanted to tell, then abandoning it and giving ate more polished expression. Rose we conclude this evening with Charles Kaiser. His new book is about courage at the time of the French Resistance during world war ii. Whats important to remember is that in the two days after the normandy invasion, there were 1,000 acts of sabotage carried out by the resistance to prevent the germans from being able to reinforce the troops after the invasion. And de gaulle and eisenhower says in his memoirs over and over again how grate offful he was. Rose copeland, raines and kaiser when we c