Its wednesday 7th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The serial sex attacker john worboys will appear at the high court this morning for the start of a legal challenge this morning against his release. Pictures of him just arriving have just come into us in the last few moments. Last month the parole board was criticised when it announced that worboys would be freed after less than nine years in prison. In 2009 worboys was given an indeterminate jail sentence, with a minimum term of at least eight years. Last november the parole board approved his release, but their reasoning remained confidential. That decision was made public last month to a furious reaction. Campaigners hoped the government would apply for a judicial review, but the justice secretary said lawyers had advised against it. Just over a week later, two of worboys victims won a legal challenge to stop him being released, but only temporarily. The first stage of their legal challenge to keep him behind bars begun today. A review has found failings in the way probation staff maintained contact with most of the victims ofjohn worboys. One of worboys victims spoke to radio 4s today programme. She explains that soon after she got into his cab, she was offered a drink. Ijust drunk itjust because you got in that situation. Drink the drink, ta ke in that situation. Drink the drink, take me home. And then he pulled over. No, he asked me if i wanted a cigarette and then he pulled over and said he was going to have a cigarette as well. I remember him getting in the back of the cab with me, but that was it. I dont remember anything other than waking up remember anything other than waking up in hospital the next morning. I know i was raped. I knew as soon as i woke know i was raped. I knew as soon as iwoke up know i was raped. I knew as soon as i woke up i had been raped. The chair of the parole board is being questioned about the transparency of parole board decisions. He said he would welcome changes to what the public are told, but the needs of the victims come first. It is quite clear that some victims dont want details of the case rehashed in public again and again. If we took about four instance a case where we were turning the prisoner down, he would come back before the parole board every two yea rs. Before the parole board every two years. That would mean every two yea rs years. That would mean every two years we were putting the details are perhaps a horrible domestic family case which was terribly messy into the public domain, despite the victims not wanting it. I think there issues around candour. There is information about this the victims that are sensitive. We also need to make sure that witnesses is to give evidence to the parole board can give us the honest opinion and dont feel pressured into saying what they think might be popular. All of those things need to be thought through. I dont want that to be misunderstood. I think we can go further in explaining our decisions. They may not like or agree with what we have done, but at least they will have some information. When we think about a possible challenge, at least they will know what they are challenging. More information about the stacey report that has been released. Its about whether timely information was given to the victims of worboys and whether they have the opportunity to contribute their views beforejohn worboys applied for release. You are seeing pictures of him arriving at court. The report says initially be Probation Service appears to have complied with the relevant instructions, but in 2010 contact lapsed for no clear reason to women who had opted in to be part of the scheme. In 2012 the report found that the quality of the correspondence was poor. Messages we re correspondence was poor. Messages were not conveyed clearly. The report says it was significant at the time when the women had the opportunity to contribute their views to be worboys parole hearing. 0ne views to be worboys parole hearing. One final point. The report found that the news to release worboys broke in the media before some of those in receipt official notification. Tesco is facing britains largest equal pay law suit which could affect up to 200,000 mostly female shop floor workers. The women say theyre paid less than men who work in the companys distribution centres, even though their work is of the same value. Lawyers estimate tesco could be liable for up to £4 billion in back pay if it loses. 0ur economics editor kamal ahmed has more. Tesco hasjoined a long list of organisations facing controversies over equal pay. Among retailers, asda and sainsbury are facing similar legal battles. Birmingham city council has already agreed to over £1 billion worth of payments for women cleaners and carers and the bbc has been accused of not paying men and women equally. Tesco, as one of the countrys largest employers, is now facing a series of test cases, which could lead to the largest equal pay claim in employment history. Lawyers for tescos supermarket workers said that female staff on hourly rates earn considerably less than men even though the value of the work is comparable. Kim element and pamjenkins have worked for tesco for over 20 years. I think that although we think we have equal rights, there are times where there are such discrepancies that you cant explain them. And i think tescos just one of Many Companies that arent addressing the fact that women seem to still be paid less. Tesco said that all their staff could progress equally and were paid fairly, whatever their gender or background. In a statement, the supermarket said this is the start of a long legal battle. Tesco just the latest business to be caught up in a fight over equal pay. Joining me now is employment lawyer paula leigh, who is representing the female tesco workers. Thank you for your time today. You are not saying, you, that thejob that the shop workers do is precisely the same as the job that workers in the warehouses do . No, absolutely not. Equal work for equal berian falls into three categories. Works rated as equivalent, which we see in the Public Sector or the nhs. The category we are looking at is work of equal value and that allows people, men and women, equal pay act does go both ways, but this is about a woman doing one particularjob to compare herself to a man doing the same or equally demanding job. We break that down into the Component Parts of what the demands looked like. To dude that we will look at the qualifications of the working conditions, the level of responsibility. To do that. The work of equal value, the law permits you to compare your role with a different role and even if the and even in a different environment. Do you take into consideration whether that work is of equal value in terms of tesco as a store. Whether that work is of equal value in terms of tesco as a storelj would leave that to the experts to decide. What we do is break it down and in agreement with the other side look at the Component Parts and then the experts go away, analyse that and give each component part a score. The scores are added up and if they are equal or the womens is higher, she will succeed. Its still open to the employer to defend that. Are you aware of men working in the stores and women working in the warehouses, although obviously it is mainly women who work in the shops are men who work in the warehouses, are men who work in the warehouses, are you aware if they are paid the same rates . Im not aware of that, but its a good point. There will be no reason why a but its a good point. There will be no reason why a man but its a good point. There will be no reason why a man could not have started this claim is a shop worker comparing himself to a female in a distribution centre. We need to be clear about that. The pay provisions apply both ways. Men can take full advantage of them and they do in this case. What we see in situations like this where you are having more and more men working in areas that have been predominantly female, they can take advantage of the success women may have a week or that piggyback claims. How similar is this to the Birmingham City council case . That Council Settled with women who were working as cleaners and carers who said they should be paid the same as men who were working as refuse workers. This is similarto working as refuse workers. This is similar to the as the case which my firm is running, looking at shop workers and distribution centres. Its similar to that case, but what makes this different is the scale of it. Tesco is one of the largest employers, so this game of it will make things different. Thank you. Theresa may is to meet senior ministers later to try to agree the governments approach for the next stage of the brexit negotiations. It comes after leaked documents show the European Union wants to be able to restrict the uks access to the Single Market if there is a dispute after brexit. The power to suspend certain benefits would apply during the post brexit transition phase. In a moment, well take to norman smith in westminster. First, to adam fleming whos in brussels. Adam, what more can you tell us about the leaked document and what it suggests about the sort of sanctions that the eu might have in the transition phase . It is not a lea ked the transition phase . It is not a leaked document any more because it has just been published officially by the European Commissions brexit task force on their website. Its important ina task force on their website. Its important in a symbolic way because it is the first draft of legal wording that will end up in the final Withdrawal Agreement, the brexit treaty that will field the uks departure from the eu. Before we have had position papers and directive guidelines. These are words that will go into that important treaty. Thats the first reason it is important. Secondly, buried away in footnote number four at the bottom of one the pages were it says there will have to be a mechanism whereby if the uk does not stick to the eus is doing the transition period and that issue cannot be solved in time by the European Court of justice cannot be solved in time by the European Court ofjustice because it will take too long then the eu will be able to say right, that is it, we are suspending your access to some parts of the Single Market. To some people that sounds threatening. The other people it is reasonable. Its the sort of thing that the eu puts into all of its International Agreements with other countries, because that is what the uk will be, and other country. I must point out that this is just a draft. The other 27 Member States have to go through it and they will talk about it on friday. Then there will be negotiations and it could change again. It is important, but it is just a first draft. Adam, thank you very much. Lets cross to norman smith in westminster. So no doubt that will be discussed today amongst other things, but we note the government and cabinet ministers, there is a lot of disagreement about there is a lot of disagreement about the best approach to the transition talks. How much is that this agreement going to have on the meetings that theresa may is having today and tomorrow . Its hugely significant and is probably the key reason that i would not expect any final decision will be taken by the end of the week. We might not get a final decision for several weeks yet got there are profound differences about the sort of relationship we should have with the eu. The chancellor Philip Hammond believes we have to stay close to the eu and the roles of the Single Market and Customs Union to minimise the potential damage to british businesses. And there are those like the foreign secretary who believes we should cut loose to maximise our ability to strike new free trade deals because thats where Global Growth will be in the next century. Those are two very clear different views about what is in britains long term interests, so trying to mash them together will be difficult and what might be difficult is language. Finding a form of words that both sides can agree with, even if that perpetuates the ambiguity about britains position. You get a sense of the frustration amongst mps. Just listening to the former chancellor Kenneth Clarke sounding exasperated about the lack of detail. I wished downing street spokesmen would shut up sometimes, because they put out completely meaningless statements. Apparently its going to be frictionless and were quite happy to have a customs arrangement, but were not going in the Customs Union and were not going in the Single Market. That is completely contradictory. Its like talking about the irish border, saying were going to have a completely open border, but were not going to have a Customs Union and were not going to have regulatory conversions on both sides. One half of that contradicts the second half. Now, despite the exasperation of those like mr clarke, the key reason why it matters to get some sort of clarity is because of the richest government not setting out its position clearly and the likely would is that the eu will step into that vacuum and begin to spell out what they think britain should accept. In other words, they seize the initiative is in the brexit negotiations in britain ends up having to respond to what they say. Thank you very much for that update. Norman smith in westminster. The headlines on bbc newsroom live the serial sex attackerjohn worboys arrives at the high court to hear a legal challenge against his release. Tesco is facing britains largest ever equal pay claim as thousands of female shop workers say they are paid female shop workers say they are pa id less female shop workers say they are paid less than men working warehouses. The Prime Minister will chair first of two key brexit meetings with her key ministers. Time now for the sport. Australia are chasing 156 to beat england in their twenty20 match in hobart. Its englands first match of a tri series tournament with the aussies and new zealand. Dawid malan gave england a good start with 50 off 36 balls. But the rest of the batsmen struggled to pick the slower deliveries. And ashton agar took a couple of catches off his own bowling. Chrisjordan helped england reach 155 for nine off the final ball of their 20 overs. And then a great opening over from david willey two wickets in his first four balls put them on top. However, that brought Glenn Maxwell to the crease. He has just reached his half century. 90 3 in hobart. British sprinter nigel levine has been provisionally suspended for failing a drugs test. The european indoor relay gold medallist has not competed since he broke his pelvis in a motorbike crash last january. And it was reported in december, hed allegedly tested positive for the banned asthma drug clenbuterol. Great britain begin their fed cup campaign in estonia later. They play the estonians and portuguese teams as they attempt to get through the europe and africa group. That would take them to the next level of world tennis for the First Time Since 1993. Jason and laura kenny will represent Great Britain for the First Time Since the olympics after being selected for the track cycling world champoinships in the netherlands. Since increasing their gold medal haul to 10 between them in rio, the couple have got married and had a baby, albie, just over six months ago. Jason also retired briefly before returning to competitive cycling last month. You can follow the cricket via the bbc sport website or on radio 5 live sports extra. But thats all the sport for now. Jon venables, one of two men convicted of killing james bulger, has pleaded guilty to having indecent images of children for a second time. The 35 year old, who served eight years for the murder of james bulger in 1993, was recalled to prison last year. 0ur correspondent Richard Galpin is at the old bailey. Richard, take us through what has been happening in court. The man formerly known asjon venables has pleaded guilty on four counts. Three of those counts of making indecent pictures of children. In total, more than 1000 pictures, some of them videos. He has also pleaded guilty toa videos. He has also pleaded guilty to a fourth count of possession of a paedophile manual found on to a fourth count of possession of a paedophile manualfound on his laptop, which was giving advice on abusing children sexually. Now his defence lawyer has said in court that venables accepts he downloaded indecent images for his personal use and that he accepts what he called he the wrongness and the bees involved in making the pictures. The court heard that there is no evidence that venables had abusive contact with children and he said he wa nts contact with children and he said he wants or needs help to understand his actions and he said its my own fault and i have let people down again. He also apologised to the family ofjamie again. He also apologised to the family of jamie bolger for the distress he has cause. And as you we re distress he has cause. And as you were saying, sentencing is expected in the next few minutes. Jamie bulger. Reports from germany say chancellor merkels conservative group has agreed to form a new Coalition Government with the centre left social democrats. The deal would bring to an end more than four months of wrangling since inconclusive elections in september. 0ur correspondent Damien Mcguiness is in berlin. We arejust seeing we are just seeing that the leader of the social democrats is planning to quit that post. Is this in fact a done deal . What we seem to have now reached is an agreement over which ministries will go to which party and that is really what tends to happen here in germany right at the end of the whole Coalition Agreement process. So we have now have more or less all the details of the Coalition Agreement wrangled over between these