27/01/2018 BBC Weekend News

Good evening.

Three teenage boys have been killed

after they were hit by a car

in Hayes in West London.

A man aged 28 who was in the car

is under arrest in hospital.

Police say they are investigating

an altercation thought to be linked

to this incident after the crash.

Our correspondent Ben Ando reports.

Friends, class mates, mourners.

Three, two, one...

Grieving together

and improvised memorial for a

tragedy as shocking as it was

unexpected to mark the deaths of

three teenagers struck by a speeding

car in Hayes in Middlesex yesterday

evening. The teenage boys have not

been formally identified but have

been named locally as George, Harry

and Josh, two were 16 years old, the

other 17. Earlier their families

visited the bus stop where the boys

lost their lives. Jake Webb was one

of the first on the scene

immediately after it happened.

I

seen it happen in front of me. There

was a bus driver in front of us and

he came over and said, yes, there's

someone dead in the road and at that

point I relayed that to 999 and

within five minutes an ambulance

arrived.

Friends of the boys say

they were walking along the pavement

in this direction going to a party

when the car struck the pavement

about here, seconds later it hit

them. The car, a will look Audi,

then spark -- a black Audi, then

came to a halt in the road, this

image showing the force of the

impact. The man who had been in the

car was attacked on a nearby garage

forecourt. Some locals say speeding

cars on this stretch of road is

nothing new.

It's a 60mph road and

cars, vehicles drive up here

sometimes like it's a speed track.

This road's busy 24-7 and if I'm

honest, I'm surprised there hasn't

been more accidents along it.

Police

believe two men were in the crashed

car, and with many other teenagers

heading to the same party, they're

appealing for any witnesses to

contact them. Ben An doe, BBC News,

Hayes.

All current rape and serious sexual

assault cases in England

and Wales are to be reviewed,

following the collapse

of several recent trials.

The Director of Public Prosecutions

Alison Saunders said

it was "a matter of urgency" to make

sure evidence has been

properly disclosed.

But the Government's chief legal

adviser says there's no evidence

of "widespread malpractice

or dishonesty" in the

prosecution system.

Clive Coleman reports.

Disclosure of evidence in some

recent highly publicised rape cases

has gone badly wrong,

but how widespread is the problem?

In December, Liam Allen's trial

for rape and sexual assault

collapsed when it emerged evidence

on a computer disc which police

examined showed messages

from the alleged victim

pestering him for casual sex.

And the number of prosecutions

in England and Wales that collapsed

because of a failure by police

or prosecutors to disclose evidence

has increased by 70%

in the last two years.

Now, the Director of

Public Prosecutions,

Alison Saunders, has ordered

an urgent review of all rape

and sexual assault cases

and conceded it's likely

a number will be dropped.

One of the major problems

is the amount of digital evidence

on phones and social media.

It's very apparent that in some

cases, mistakes have been made that

simply shouldn't have been.

It's important that when you look

at that kind of case,

that the prosecutors

and the investigators look

at social media traffic,

look at text messages that have past

between the two individuals,

because they can put

what's happened in a very

significant different light.

A national disclosure improvement

plan has been published.

It includes a review

of disclosure training,

developing a group of specialists

in every police force

and all multi-media evidence to be

provided to the defence digitally.

Yesterday here, a people

trafficking case, not a rape

or sexual assault trial,

collapsed because prosecutors failed

to disclose critical

evidence to the defence.

The judge has demanded an urgent

explanation in a case made even more

shocking by the fact that one

of the young female defendants

was held in prison for 13 months

during which time she gave birth.

This problem is systemic

and endemic throughout

the criminal justice system.

It's been known about for many years

and it's as a result of chronic

underfunding of the police,

the prosecution service

and particularly the defence lawyers

who've suffered years of cuts

of legal aid.

If public confidence in our fair

trial system is to be maintained,

fixing disclosure is now

the criminal justice

system's biggest challenge.

A bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul

has left 95 people dead

and more than 150 injured.

The Taliban say they

carried out the attack.

An emergency vehicle,

packed with explosives,

was blown up at a checkpoint.

From Kabul, Zia Shahreyar reports.

An ambulance packed

with explosives driven into crowds

on their way to work.

The force of the blast shook

the windows off buildings

at least a mile away.

Some lower rising

structures collapse.

A plume of smoke visible

across the city.

The attacker had driven his vehicle

past the police checkpoint,

claiming to have a patient inside.

When guards at a second

checkpoint became suspicious,

he detonated the bomb.

TRANSLATION:

I was in an armoured

plated vehicle when suddenly

there was an explosion.

I was in the back seat,

my driver was blown out

on to the ground and injured.

The area of the attack is home

to foreign embassies and the city's

police headquarters.

The road had been closed

to public transport.

The Taliban claimed responsibility.

This is their second deadly assault

on the city in the space of a week.

20 people were killed

in an attack on the

Intercontinental Hotel last week.

This evening, work was

continuing to clear the scene

of the latest bombing.

This is a very secure area

and security is very tight

here usually and the question

will be how they got

through this far.

The Afghan military,

backed by US air power,

has intensified its campaign

to drive out the Taliban

from its rural strongholds.

But, as today's strike proves,

they're still able to mount deadly

attacks against civilian targets

in the heart of the

country's major cities.

Homes and businesses in Paris

are on high alert as the River Seine

threatens to overflow its banks.

Weeks of rain have pushed the water

level up and its thought the River

will peak six metres above normal.

Museums including the

Louvre have been shut.

In smaller towns along the Seine,

people are having to use boats

to get around flooded streets.

One of the world's richest men

who was held for two months

by the Saudi authorities

in an anti-corruption

drive, has been freed.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal

was one of 200 princes,

politicians and wealthy businessmen

detained in a crackdown.

They were held at a luxury

hotel in Riyadh.

Its believed a financial settlement

was agreed in return

for the Prince's release.

Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki has

won her first tennis Grand Slam

title after beating Simona Halep

in a thrilling three sets

at the Australian Open.

Victory in Melbourne means

Wozniacki returns to number 1

in the World rankings.

Adam Wild reports.

There are few stages in the game

more spectacular than Melbourne and

the welcome could scarcely have been

more fitting.

The winner takes it

all...

The world's top two toe-to-toe Down

Under, the final already had all the

sparkle it needed, a match worth the

wait, the wait is something with

which was was and Halep are all too

familiar with. Neither had won a

Grand Slam before, this was

Wozniacki's 4 III attempt. She

started like a player not prepared

to wait any longer. Halep too is

battle hardened, forcing a tie-break

before finally seeing it slip away.

A moment for her to stay calm, keep

her cool, not easy in the blistering

evening heat. Still, somehow she

managed, fighting back to level the

match. The foamtures now becoming

the battle with both having to leave

court to cool off. It was heating

up, the final set befitting such an

occasion, going one way then the

other, this taking Wozniacki to the

brink. One more point and her long

wait was finally over.

She's done

it! And you will not see a more

popular winner.

I've dreamt of this

moment for so many years and to be

here today is a dream come true and

my voice is shaking, I'm going to

cierks but today is a very emotional

moment.

Wozniacky at last a Grand

Slam champion, she becomes world

number one, a winner who today took

it all.

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