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Thejustice secretary, david gauke, says the governments main priority has to be the safety of the public when considering the case of Shamima Begum. The family of the pregnant teenager who left britain to join the Islamic State group say theyd welcome a Police Investigation into her actions, but want the government to help bring her home. Sophie long reports. This is the al hawl camp in Northern Syria where the 19 year old from east london is living as she awaits the birth of her third child. Shamima begum says both her son and daughter died, and she wants to come back to britain so her unborn baby does not the same fate. Herfamily, who had feared they would never see her again, have asked the government to help them get her home. But the justice secretary says there are risks to allowing people like Shamima Begum to return to britain, and they would look at her case very closely. What has to be the priority of the British Government is ensuring the protection of the british people as a whole. We do have a number of powers in this area. We have to act within those powers. But we need to make sure that the british people are not unnecessarily at risk. In a statement, Shamima Begums family says. Shamima begums case is not unique. Some 850 people left the uk to join so called Islamic State. Around half have already come back. Some working against extremism say there needs to be more focus on what caused her to go, to prevent others from doing the same. I realise that she is a bit of a poster girl of that phenomenon of those young girls going off tojoin daesh. But if we take stock of what is happening, we need to see how she got there and we can stop other people from going down that route. The home secretary has said he would prevent people in terrorist organisations returning to britain. It is unclear what that will mean for Shamima Begum, who was just 15 when she left the uk for syria. Sophie long, bbc news. Nicola benyahiah is a psychotherapist, who runs a counselling service for families affected by radicalisation. She set it up in 2015, after her teenage son, rasheed, left the country and travelled to syria tojoin is. He was killed six months later. Earlier, she told the bbc what factors the government should consider about shamimas case. I think the whole thing is a case by case situation with any individual that has made the choice to go over and join daesh. I think a thorough assessment of the individual is required. And to process any investigation and possibly prosecution. A lot of people will have read the interview she gave to the times and heard the remarks and heard the remarks that she made and think, she is not showing any signs of remorse, it is too big a risk to have her back. What do you say . It is incredibly difficult to make that snapped the words she says. That is why i say a thorough assessment would be required. We are not sure whether she does have remorse from the words she is saying. She could actually be suffering from the effects of ptsd or trauma. You have to remember, when somebody is out there, they suffer from paranoia. They fear people around them. And i think that is what we need to bear in mind. Actually, even with my son, when he was out there, this is the kind of thing he was showing with these paranoid thoughts. People are watching them and listening to everything they are saying. She also may be filtering what he is saying because of that fact. What about the practicalities of this . If she is brought back to this country, she is interviewed, she is debriefed, what about dealing with the psychological effects of what he has experienced, if seems to have hope of resuming what most people would refer to as normal everyday life . Iwould hope, i mean, the uk is equipped to deal with these interventions. I would hope there would be a real wraparound sort of intervention for notjust Shamima Begum but herfamily. My heart goes out to her family, who have actually been experiencing this for many years. They are holding a life sentence themselves. I would hope that they were being supported as well. Are you surprised this seems to have come so unexpected to people . We have known a large number of fighters and supporters have to syria, and we knew that Islamic State was on the point of being defeated, should there have been more preparations . I think certainly. We have been talking about this for a couple of years about the complexity. It shouldnt come to a shock to any of us. Again, we have been talking about this. For the public it is security and safety that is paramount. But we also have to think about how we are going to cover if we do decide to bring these people back. My colleague, sean ley, talking to nicola benyahiah there. A 27 year old man has apeared in court charged with the murder of three elderly men in exeter. Alexander lewis ra nwell was before magistrates in the city. Naomi dymond gave us this update. Alexander lewis ra nwell appeared here at Exeter Magistrates Court this morning, during a very short two minute hearing. During that time the charges were read to him. He faces five, three of which are charges of murder. Those are of 80 year old anthony payne, found dead at his home in the city earlier this week, and richard and roger carter, 84 year old twins, who were also from the city. The charges relate to incidents between the tenth and the 12th of february. He was facing a further two charges of grievous bodily harm with intent, relating to a further two incidents in north devon on the 9th of february, and exeter on the 11th. During the very short hearing today he was remanded in custody and will appear at Exeter Crown Court on monday morning. Naomi dymond. A teenager has died, two days after being stabbed outside a sixth form college in birmingham. The 16 year old boy had been on life support since the incident in the highgate area on wednesday. Another 16 year old appeared in court, charged with attempted murder, before the boy died. Thousands of criminals in england and wales will be tagged with gps trackers, to allow authorities to constantly record their whereabouts. The current tags, which are worn by around 60,000 offenders, are linked to a fixed address, such as an offenders home, with alerts generated if they are not there at certain hours. Danny shaw reports. We have Gps Technology in our cars and on our smartphones. Now its being used to track the movements of offenders and suspects on bail. This is a demonstration of how the satellite tags are fitted, using an expert who has helped set up the scheme. The ankle tag sends an alert if someone goes to an area theyre banned from, or isnt attending a rehabilitation course when they should be. It gives us very detailed information as to where that person potentially has been, where they have been tracked. It gives us evidence to be able to present to the relevant criminal Justice Agency to take that appropriate action. The offender satellite tracking has been operating in three areas since last november. It will be rolled out across england and wales by the summer. Tags will monitor 4,000 people every year. It will be used in cases of Domestic Abuse and stalking to keep offenders away from victims. David blunkett was the first politician to trial satellite tracking, launching a scheme when he was home secretary 15 years ago. But progress stalled due to contractual disputes and technical problems. The government will be hoping it has more success this time. Danny shaw, bbc news. A planned visit by the chancellor to china will now not go ahead. The news comes following reports that beijng pulled out of trade talks, after the defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, indicated that the uk may be willing to deploy a warship in the pacific. Earlier i spoke to our political correspondent, jonathan blake, who told me the cancellation of the trip was confirmed by the treasury this morning. Philip hammond is not travelling to china as it stands. They have also said no trip was announced or confirmed. That is true. There have been plans in the works for some time for Philip Hammond to make a brief visit to china and have trade talks with senior members of the government, the key time in the run up to brexit when the uk will be looking to boost its trade links the country. While a source has told me no final decision has been taken, it does seem clear from the chinese side it will not happen for now. This comes a few days after Gavin Williamson made that speech which some interpreted as being on the hostile side towards china, talking about sending hms Queen Elizabeth on its Maiden Voyage to the pacific and the uk having a presence in the region. Also saying that china was developing its military capability and commercial power. Any suggestion that speech has caused china to pull the plug on this visit has been played down or denied. Commons the did raise eyebrows and it has probably not helped things. What does it say about uk china relations . On the one hand you have got the clear concern which Gavin Williamson has expressed about chinas growing military power, reach and influence in the world, and the need to perhaps counter that oi and the need to perhaps counter that or keep a check on it. And also the importance Philip Hammond is keen to pursue with other close economic relationship with china. China is britains fifth largest trading partner. A relationship is worth £60 billion a year with china. After brexit, when the uk is able to do more bilateral trade deals, the government will be looking to improve on that and build on that. But this episode demonstrate it will bea but this episode demonstrate it will be a particularly sensitive relationship and at times it difficult one to handle. Jonathan blake. The disgraced former catholic cardinal, theodore mccarrick, has been dismissed from the priesthood, over charges of sexual abuse. Mccarrick, whos a former archbishop of washington dc, resigned last year, and has been living in seclusion. Hed said he could not remember an alleged case of sexual abuse of a 16 year old boy, which took place more than 50 years ago. Archbishop charles sciclu na, who has been appointed with addressing the abuse crisis, says the decision to defrock mccarrick shows that bishops are not above the law. The decision to dismiss a bishop from the clerical state is always a very grave and serious decision, which is never taken lightly. But it is also a very important signal that if we are talking about accountability for bishops, we are actually doing it. It is not talk. We are walking the talk. It is also very important signalfor archbishops that we are not above the law. We are a servants and stewards of our people. Friends and colleagues of the cardiff city striker, Emiliano Sala, are gathering in the town of progreso in northern argentina, where the footballers funeral is due to take place. He died, along with pilot david ibbotson, when their plane went down in the English Channel last month. Cardiff manager neil warnock and chief executive ken choo are expected to attend. From progreso, Natalio Cosoy reports. For many of the residents of this small argentinian town, it is too much to bear a Hometown Hero returned to soon. Translation without a doubt we would not have imagined everything we are seeing now. There are 3000 of us but everybody is overwhelmed but still trying to give Emiliano Sala the sendoff he deserves. Emiliano sala grew up playing football here in progreso, until he left, aged 14, to pursue bigger opportunities. After making his name playing in france, the 28 year old was bought by cardiff city from nantes for a club record £15 million on the 19th ofjanuary. Just two days later, the plane carrying him in the pilot, david ibbotson, from france to the welsh capital, disappeared over the English Channel. After a two week search, the footballers body was found in the wreckage. Mr ibbotson remains missing. Translation i would like to find a person in authority who says to me, this happened. But it seems like his death has led us to this. It was a shock for progreso, where his family, friends and childhood neighbours are now gathering to pay their respects. Mourners are coming into this building on the ground of Emiliano Salas childhood club to say theirfinal farewells to the football player. Later there will be a religious ceremony. And then the body of Emiliano Sala will be taken to be cremated, as per the wish of his family. Ahead of todays service, salas boyhood club, san martin de progreso, posted a message on social media saying. We are waiting for you, like the first day you left, but this time to stay with us for ever, eternally in our hearts. Natalio cosoy, bbc news, progreso. Lady falkender, who was political secretary to the former prime minister, Harold Wilson, has died at the age of 86. Formerly known as marcia williams, she was a controversial and powerfulfigure. She was the former labour prime ministers right hand woman during his two periods in office during the 1960s and 70s. The former labour mp, austin mitchell, who once interviewed lady falkender, said she was key to Harold Wilson becoming prime minister. She was certainly dedicated to Harold Wilson and people like bernard donoghue, his speech writer, who came into contact with and founder too tough. It was a must as if she had a valid relationship with wilson. They had been together and worked together for so long. It was a fairly intense relationship. She kept his feet on the ground. I think ina kept his feet on the ground. I think in a sense power went to her head when she was his political secretary. She made contact with a lot of people, some of them show business people. She would not have normally come across them. The headlines on bbc news thejustice secretary has said the governments main priority has to be the safety of the public when considering the case of Shamima Begum. A 27 year old man has appeared in court charged with the murders of three elderly men in exeter. Thousands of criminals in england and wales will be tagged with gps trackers to allow authorities to trace them 2a hours a day. And in sport, in the fa cup brighten her through to the quarterfinals after a 2 1win over derby. Brighten up. Brighton hove albion. Great britains mens hockey team that lost to australia, their first defeat in the pro league. Great britains women also lost to australia. Details on those stories at 5 30pm. Nigerias president Muhammadu Buhari has appealed for calm, after the countrys president ial elections were postponed. The decision to delay the vote for a week was announced just a few hours before polling stations were due to open across the country. Electoral Officials Say the delay is for logistical reasons. The transportation of electrode material. They say it was not the result of external pressure. A short time ago the chairman of the Electoral Commission addressed the media. The bbc s mayeni jones has more from yola in the north east of the country. Waking up to disappointment. Voters across nigeria are not happy. Many people had to travel long distances to cast their vote macro. In president Muhammadu Buharis hometown there was surprise. We have seen the president is in the town. We have seen many people coming from fireplaces. I couldnt believe it until i came out. People are just standing. Others have about to show up standing. Others have about to show up again next week. If we do not vote,. If we vote we will see a change. Voting booths here are completely empty. No ballot papers and not people. Life seems to be carrying on as normal. Nigerians are used to delay collections. The last couple of pauls were also was born. The announcement of the delay came in the early hours of saturday when most people were in bed. Following a careful review of the fermentation of the logistics and operational plan, and the determination to conduct free, fair and credible elections, the commission came to the conclusion that proceeding with the conclusion that proceeding with the election as scheduled is no longerfeasible. The election as scheduled is no longer feasible. Some officers of the Electoral Commission have been burnt another person past two weeks. Voting materials have not made it to the polling stations late on friday night. Turnout on election day is high. There are concerns many of these voters will not show up next week. The government is considering forcing mobile phone companies to open up their networks to competitors, to try to improve reception in rural areas. Ministers want 95 of the uk to have a mobile signal by 2022. More than 20 of the uk is without access to an adequate signal for basic Voice Services from all mobile operators. Lets talk to our correspondent rob young, and also with us is gill bullock, who owns the swan brewery at leominster in herefordshire. Just describe your situation to us, please . As you can see, i not based in the brewery right now. I can work at home but are brewery is based seven 01 at home but are brewery is based seven or eight miles away. We depend on broadband and the internet when we are based here and at the brewery, to do a host of activities to do with her small business. That can be anything from paying suppliers, processing vat returns, doing duty returns, fermentation control, running her payroll. So we cannot exist without the internet. It is good where we are at home and it is good where we are at the brewery. Because we move around the cou nty of brewery. Because we move around the county of curvature doing deliveries, we know where only blackspot are. Where be cant get any Internet Access on our phone or ipad. We cant even make voice calls. Has it significantly affected your business . It certainly hampers it in small significant ways. I do wa nt to it in small significant ways. I do want to stress that when we are based at the brewery we have got really good broadband access. But it could be something simple like, if we are going into one of the pubs and we want to check some details, we would look on the lap to see if they have any payment outstanding. If we cant get access, we cant go in and improve that cash flow situation. There is another situation. There is another situation where we can control our fermentation from at home using a dial in service. So if, for example, we could not check on that at ten oclock at night, that would mean a trip back to the brewery in person to sort that out. It is a lot of small things that may conspire against the smooth flowing of a business. Dont go away. We have got oui business. Dont go away. We have got our correspondent in the studio. We have got a great picture of how it is impacting on somebodys every day life. Im sure that story repeated up life. Im sure that story repeated up and down the country. What is the government proposing . So much of our economy is based on mobile and data collections. It is incredibly frustrating when you are in a rural area where mobile signals are not great, or some parts of cities. You get your mobile out and frustratingly there is no signal. Perhaps the person a few meters away from me does have a signal. These are where some networks have receptions and others do not. That is what the government is hoping to tackle with this announcement. At the moment 77 of the uk is covered by the four major mobile networks. By by the four major mobile networks. By 2022 it will be 95 . It may be that the roll out of the next generation of mobile networks will happen alongside that. On holiday your mobile phone seamlessly switches between networks. 0fcom is being asked to look at the costs and the benefits of introducing this in the benefits of introducing this in the uk in rural areas. This goes back to 2014, David Cameron first proposed the face, wanted to push this true, why is it that mobile operators are so this true, why is it that mobile operators are so opposed to it . There is an anecdote that may or and eminem may not be true that David Cameron tried to make a telephone call to Angela Merkel in the countryside and could not get a signal. Everybody is affected by this problem at one time or another. There are a number of potential problems with a National Roll out network. 0ne problems with a National Roll out network. One is that it could be technically complex. Another is that it may be a disincentive to networks to build mobile towers in areas where they dont have them. They say also it may impact on the experience of users as well. If your phone is consta ntly of users as well. If your phone is constantly looking for the best signal, it may lead to dropped calls, it could potentially lead to your battery draining as well. It is not guaranteed this will happen. The government is asking the regulator to look at it. It has started a consultation so people can give their views. This idea of Virtual Networks and piggybacking does not exist, does it . There are other consumer bands that piggyback on this, that go over the top of the four main networks. Those can use one individual networks towers in the countryside. You get a signal. Finally, jill, we hear that there are fixes. Have you ever considered may be switching networks in order to get around the problem . That is a consideration. But i am looking to, well, people like the government to support Small Businesses and personal users in general. It is quite a busy time. My hands are quite a busy time. My hands are quite full running a small business. To be constantly looking around switching providers, ithink to be constantly looking around switching providers, i think my provider is quite good but i would say that there are initiatives that can really help users of broadband and voice calls. I would say to the government if it is commissioning this investigation, this review, look to what her future and Gloucestershire Councils are doing. They have made great steps forward. Thank you both. Now its time for a look at the weather with darren bett hello. It is staying mild throughout this weekend. The winds from the south. They will strengthen overnight. We will see the cloud thickening and western scotland and Northern Ireland to bring rain and drizzle. Further east, a lot of that low cloud will get pushed northwards on the strengthening winds and out into the north sea. Skies tending to clear. It should not get too cold because of the breeze. To the west we have ragged rain moving in. Further east, sunshine. It will cloud over in the afternoon. As the rain clears the west, sunshine following in the afternoon. Showers for Northern Ireland and western scotland. Windier than today. Still mild. Monday sees a lot of cloud for the south east and east anglia. Drizzle for a while. Elsewhere, brighter skies and sunshine. Increasing blustery showers, some of them heavy. Mild but not quite as mild. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines thejustice secretary has said the governments main priority has to be the safety of the public when considering the case of Shamima Begum. A 27 year old man has appeared in court charged with the murders of three elderly men in exeter. Thousands of criminals in england and wales will be tagged with gps trackers to allow authorities to trace them 24 hours a day. The funeral of footballer Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash in the English Channel last month, as he headed for his new club cardiff city, is taking place in his native argentina

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