Than a third of women have been subjected to sexual harassment or sexual offences while commuting by train or tube. Our correspondent nick eardley has this report. Beeping. Put your bags on the floor. This is the moment when edgar junior was arrested by british transport police last year. The 50 year old had sexually assaulted a woman on a train. He admitted it and was sentenced to 20 months in prison. But new figures show that this is far from an isolated case. British transport police figures show an average of 31 reports a day involving violent crimes against women or girls. The number being reported hasjumped 50% in just two years. Reports of sexual harassment have more than doubled in the same period, with sexual assault reports up io%, too. Most women and girls have experienced incidents of sexual harassment and other types of non contact sexual offending on the transport network for a very long time. It isn t new to many women and girls that this is happening, but we also know p
Key details about the risk posed by valdo calocane were minimised or omitted by nottinghamshire health care nhs foundation trust. The health secretary, wes streeting, says he expects services across england to learn from the review. Our social affairs editor alison holt has this report. Injune last year, valdo calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, went on a rampage through the streets of nottingham. It led to the fatal stabbings of 19 year old students grace o malley kumar and barnaby webber and 65 year old caretaker ian coates. Three others were also seriously injured. Cctv picked up calocane walking for hours before the attacks. Today s report describes him as having been acutely unwell for the previous few years, but says mental health assessments missed key details and minimise the risks he posed to himself and others. The care quality commission says that over the two years calocane was in the care of nottinghamshire mental health services, there were difficulties getting him
And were led home by sha carri richardson to win gold ahead of second place great britain in a time of 41. 78 seconds. Germany took the bronze. Meanwhile, marileidy paulino broke the olympic record as she won gold in the women s aoo metres. The dominican raced to victory in 48. 17 seconds in front of a packed stade de france crowd, coming home ahead of salwa eid naser of bahrain, who won silver, and poland s natalia kaczmarek, who took bronze. Spain are the olympic football champions after beating the hosts france 5 3 in a thrilling final which went to extra time. Spain looked to be the comfortable winners when they led 3 1 after alex baena s free kick before half time, but the french scored twice late on in normal time, including a 93rd minute penalty, which meant extra time. However, it was spain who finished stronger, with a goal in each half of extra time to take the gold medal. China is still on for a diving gold medal clean sweep after chen yi wen won the women s three metre spri
They will be safe as concern grows over dozens of planned protests in the coming days. You re with bbc news. Kamala harris has addressed a rally in the us city of philadelphia a short while ago after choosing minnesota governor tim walz as her running mate. The current vice president took over as the democratic party s nominee just over two weeks ago, afterjoe biden pulled out of the race. Let s hear what she had to say. Our campaign, our campaign is notjust a fight against donald trump. Our campaign this campaign is a fight for the future. It s a fight for the future. In pennsylvania, we fight for a future with affordable housing, affordable health care, affordable childcare, paid leave. We fight for a future where we build a broad based economy, where every american has the opportunity to own a home, to start a business, and to build wealth. Ms harris used the rally to introduce her vice presidential pick tim walz. The man standing next to ms. Harris. He gave an impassioned speech
America s commitment to israel s defence remains iron clad as it steps up its military presence in the middle east. The pentagon is sending additional warships and fighterjets as regional tension grows following the assassination of the hamas leader ismail haniyeh in tehran, and a hezbollah commander in beirut. Iran s revolutionary guards have said mr haniyeh was killed by a short range missile, launched from outside his room in a tehran guesthouse. It promised severe retalliation at an appropriate time and place. a short range from tel aviv, our correspondent jenny hill has this update. The us has said that it will be sending an extra squadron well of fighterjets to the region, as well as warships, stating that america s commitment to israel s defence is, quote, ironclad . Now, it s not the first time we ve seen such a scenario. Perhaps you ll remember that in april, iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at israel. Israel was able to intercept them, shoot them down with t