23/09/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it is Friday, it is 9am and welcome to the programme.

Hackers have stolen details of more than half a billion Yahoo customers

worldwide in the biggest security breach ever committed.

But why has it taken nearly two years for the company to explain how

names, email addresses, and phone numbers were stolen in the scam.

When is the right time to withdraw treatment for someone

who is in what is called a persistent vegatitive,

Well the decision doesn't lie with families but with

Relatives and campaigners say this needs to change.

The mother of a British teenager found dead on a beach in India tells

this programme about the guilt she feels since her daughter's

I will regret that decision for the rest of my life that I let her go to

that party. I wish more than anything I had said no and kept her

with us, but I cannot change the past. I have to accept it and get

on. Welcome to the programme,

we're live until 11 this morning. We have lots coming up this

morning on the show - what the biggest ever cyber hack

on the accounts of Yahoo customers means and what to do

if you may be affected. We are talking to two women

who are marching in Dublin tomorrow in protest at the abortion laws that

make it a criminal offence And we will keep you up to date

with any breaking news including the latest on those protests

in the American state of North Carolina over the shooting

dead of a black man. Do get in touch on all the stories

we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

and if you text, you will be charged under pressure to explain how it

failed to notice for two years what is thought to have been

the biggest cyber attack in history. The company has urged its customers

to consider changing their passwords after hackers stole information

from half a billion accounts. Yahoo said the breach

included names and emails, Our North America technology

reporter Dave Lee has more. Rumours that Yahoo had been hacked

had been circulating It was initially estimated that

200 million users may have been hit, but it's turned out to be much

worse than that. In terms of size, when we look

at some of the other mega breaches this year, things like LinkedIn,

MySpace was the big one - 360, this one is larger

than either of those. So it is unprecedented in terms

of the number of records impacted. Both Yahoo and the FBI

are investigating the Whatever the source or motivation,

the breach could have serious In July, the company was sold

to Verizon for $4.8 billion. But Verizon told the BBC it only

found out about the hack within the last two days

and it was now considering its own Questions are also being asked

about Yahoo's boss, Marissa Mayer, who has presided over

a decline of the company and the largest online

security breach in history. It is another sad chapter

for what was once the most popular With me now is our technology

reporter Chris Foxx. Tell us more about what has been

taken. People might be thinking, who even uses Yahoo? It has been on the

decline a long time but this data was stolen two may be more years

ago. The company said no credit card details have been stolen but that is

easy to change if they are stolen. It is harder to change your name,

date of birth, telephone number. That is the kind of thing stolen.

Fortunately, pass words were encrypted on the database and cannot

be read by anyone with access to the data. But crucially some of the

security questions on the website were not scrambled. When it ask you

thing is like your mother's maiden name. Those questions were in the

database in plain text for anybody to read which means if you have used

them on another website, go to the website and change your password.

Good advice not to reuse your password on other websites. The

information was put up for sale, what can be done with it? Usually it

is useful to harvest usernames, get passwords and tried them on other

websites. There might not be anything of interest in your

account, but if they can get into your PayPal account or e-mail, there

might be something lucrative. Each of these records were up for sale on

the dark web at less than 1p each. Not really of much value otherwise

the price would be higher. This happened in 2014. Why are we hearing

about it now? Yahoo says it has been investigating about it a long time.

People sometimes post fake breaches, posting millions of fake records on

the web. It has taken a long time for Yahoo to verify it is real. If

you are a Yahoo customer and you are hearing now to change your password

and it happened two years ago, you would think, that is a bit late. It

is embarrassing. Will damage already have been done? Yes, if someone has

your password from two years ago and you have reused it on the site, they

will be able to get in. Do not jest change the Yahoo password, change

all your passwords. -- just to change.

Annita McVeigh is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

Rebel held areas of eastern Aleppo have come under renewed bombardment.

The attacks began after the Syrian government announced

a new offensive aimed at taking rebel-held areas -

also home to at least 250,000 civilians.

The latest violence comes as the United States

and Russia have failed, once again, to revive a ceasefire.

This is Aleppo through the eyes of its residents.

These unverified pictures were filmed as the Syrian

military announced a new offensive on the city.

The government warned people to stay away from what it called

As the week-long truce collapsed, the US and Russia held talks

Talks which delivered little but frustration.

We can't be the only ones trying to hold this door open.

Russia and the regime must do their part or this

The US says to restore the credibility of the truce,

those with air power in the conflict should stop using it.

But Russia countered that opposition forces also needed to stop fighting.

As a stalemate continues, so does the wait for those

in Aleppo in need of supplies of food and medicine.

Deliveries have been suspended since Monday's attack on a convoy

We hope to go to eastern Aleppo in the next days.

We have 40 trucks ready at the Turkish-Syrian border.

We need the government and the armed opposition groups to give us

all the assurances we need and we haven't gotten that by now.

The US and Russia will hold further talks today, but there

is little sign of compromise and little sign of peace

The family of a British schoolgirl murdered in India eight years ago

will today hear the long-awaited verdict on the two men accused

15-year-old Scarlett Keeling was on a six-month family holiday

when she was found dead on a beach in Goa.

Scarlett's mother, Fiona MacKeown, has spent eight years trying to get

justice for her daughter and has travelled to India for the verdict.

It is going to be the end of a huge struggle and a wait.

Even though it won't be completely the end,

because if it is a guilty verdict, they will appeal,

and if it is not guilty, hopefully the prosecution will appeal.

It is going to be the end of a long wait.

I usually think about her when it's quiet.

I think about how much she is missing.

Missing the other children growing up and missing my

I see her friends still, and they are the same

age she would have been out if she had been alive.

You can see that interview at around 9:30am.

Prosecutors in the US State of Oklahoma have charged

policewoman who shot an unarmed black man, with manslaughter.

Video footage has emerged showing the man walking away from officers

Meanwhile, protesters have defied a curfew put

in place in Charlotte, North Carolina, where people

have been gathering for the past three nights.

The demonstrations follow the killing of a black man

by police on Tuesday, but officers decided

against enforcing the curfew, as protests were largely peaceful.

There have been calls for footage of the shooting to be released,

People who are tricked into transferring money

from their bank accounts to fraudsters deserve better

protection, according to the consumer group,

It's made a so-called 'super-complaint' which forces

financial regulators to look at whether the public should be

given more protection, as our business correspondent

To people like Christopher in York, it seems our bank

He was tricked by e-mail into sending a ?10,000 house deposit

to a fraudster posing as his estate agent.

It's just like being burgled at home.

Something is missing and you can't get it back.

The scammer was so clever in that the first e-mail was exactly

the same details to what came from the estate agents.

In trying to deal with bank transfer fraud, Which?

wants an investigation into the scale of the problem and,

crucially, greater liability for banks so customers are better

Where the liability has been shifted to the banks,

we have seen them take some really good steps in credit and debit cards

We haven't seen that same action with bank

transfers and that's because, we believe, they are

Hello, it's Nigel Freeman from the bank.

Banks launched a campaign this week to warn people,

but their fraud body says reimbursing victims would be wrong.

If we refund willy-nilly it won't encourage anybody to be

careful and the whole point of our Take Five campaign

that we launched earlier this week is to try to get people

to understand how they can be scammed and how to stop

But tens of thousands like Chris have lost out.

Most never knew that it's often the customer who takes the hit.

The Prime Minsiter says that every effort must be made to stop

the legal system being abused over allegations of serious

Theresa May told defence chiefs she is determined to stop

vexatious claims being brought against the armed forces.

Two separate inquiries are investigating around 2,000

allegations against troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There's no evidence that plans to expand grammar schools in England

will raise overall educational standards,

The Education Policy Institute argues the policy could also widen

the attainment gap between rich and poor children.

The government has rejected the findings and says new grammars

will help every child fulfil their potential.

The FBI says it's gathering information about an alleged

incident involving the Hollywood star Brad Pitt and his children

It said it was still evaluating whether to launch an investigation.

The actor's wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce on Monday,

She's asked for physical custody of their six children.

A British man who lived as a goat in the Alps for three days has won

one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes - the spoof awards which recognise

amusing or sometimes bizarre scientific research.

Tom Thwaites said the artificial limbs he made to walk and trot

with the goats could help the design of equipment for humans.

A study which examined the personalities of rocks

was also honoured - as were the team who examined why

the world looks different when you bend over and look at it

It takes all sorts! More from me at 9:30am. What was going through that

goat's mind as he watched him? If your loved one was in the

vegetative state with no hope of recovery, what would you do? And who

should decide who to turn off life support? Let us know your thoughts.

And let us know your thoughts on everything you have been -- we have

been talking about this morning. We'll start with cricket

because we have a really exciting conclusion on our

hands to the season. Yes a dramatic finale of the County

Championship rumbles on for a fourth and final day. Somerset beat

Nottinghamshire and they can win the title for the first time in their

history, but only if today's match between Yorkshire and Middlesex ends

in a drawer. Yorkshire aiming for a third straight title and yesterday

showed nerves against Middlesex, but soon got into their groove with a

century by Tim Bresnan, which help to guide Yorkshire towards the bonus

points needed to keep the title chase alive. Play resumes at 10:30am

with Middlesex on 81-2, 39 runs behind. Whoever wins this will be

champions. Turning attentions to football now,

and Rangers and Celtic are going to meet in

the Scottish League Cup? In the semifinals and it will be the

second old firm derby in as many months. Celtic thrashed Rangers 5-1

in the premiership a couple of weeks ago and the latest clash will be on

the 22nd or 23rd of October. Aberdeen are through to the last

four after beating St Johnstone. It was a late goal by Adam Rooney that

gave them the win. They play Morton next, in their first League Cup

semifinal in 37 years. Finally Jessica, if you're

booking a skiiing holiday in the years to come,

you could be asked to help out It is an interesting initiative from

the governing body, British ski and snowboard, encouraging people to

donate to British winter sports when they book skiing holidays or by ski

equipment. The chief executive wants better financial investment for the

Winter Olympics counterparts. He is suggesting a ?1 contribution from

holiday-makers could transform Britain's fortunes in future Winter

Olympics. At the Sochi games, Jenny Jones won a bronze medal in the

snowboard, the first British Olympic medal on snow and that success has

led to an increase in participation but at elite level athletes are

struggling financially compared to more dominant nations. That is all

the sport. Just after 10am, I will have a Paralympic champion with me,

Kadeena Cox. If your loved one was in a permanent

vegetative state with no hope Would you want to withdraw

treatment, or would you want Regardless of your answer,

that decision is not in your hands. It instead lies with medical teams

and the Court of Protection, something families and campaigners

say needs to be stopped In a moment, we'll talk to people

who have experienced this predicament with a loved one,

as well as experts on the issue, but first, Sanchia Berg joins us

now. , Sanchia, what is a permanent

vegetative state, the condition we are talking about? Many people will

be familiar with a coma, where someone is asleep and they show no

signs of response. The next step from that is a vegetative state,

whether our cycles of sleeping and waking, the eyes will open and move,

but they are not responding to the environment or the people around

them. The stage after that is called minimally conscious state, and that

is where people showed more signs of responsiveness, but again, it is a

long way from being conscious. When it comes to vegetative states,

doctors can determine that someone is in a permanent vegetative state

either 12 months after a traumatic injury, or six months after a

non-traumatic incident, such as Jodie Simpson, who took an overdose.

We will be speaking to Jodie's family in a moment, but if someone

is in that situation and the family decided his time to withdraw

treatment, who gets to make the call and what happens? It is complicated.

You might remember the case of Tony Bland, a football fan left in a coma

after Hillsborough. His doctors saw no prospect of him improving, he was

in a vegetative state. They went to the courts to decide and it went all

the way to the house of Lords. They determined that doctors could remove

his feeding tube, because this constituted treatment. As the

treatment wasn't helping him, they could withhold that, and that way,

he could die. When they made the decision, the house of lords said it

would be good practice for other cases like this to come to the

courts. So ever since, there has been the practice of doctors

repairing these cases up to the court of -- referring these cases up

to the Court of protection to make a decision. If you look at the

guidance from the Royal College of physicians, they will say it is

English law that you have to take these cases to the Court of

protection. But I have spoken to a leading lawyer at the Court of

protection who has been looking there are closely at this, and he

says it is not for but it has become a very well established practice. It

is not a convert of process with someone saying that you can't have

your wish is granted? This is a good point. We're not talking about

families who don't want the feeding tube taken away. We're talking about

families who very sadly have accepted that there is almost no

prospect of their relative recovering. They have come to this

decision and agree with the doctors. Where families do want to continue

feeding, if there is a dispute, it should go to the courts. No one is

arguing about that. Thank you, Sanchia. We can now speak to Jean

Simpson, Jodie's more the -- mother, and her brother. Also with us,

Professor Jenny Kitzinger who has written a report

on the families experience, and Professor Derick

Wade, a consultant in neurological rehabilitation.

Jean, your daughter Jodie was in a permanent vegetative state

thank you for speaking to others about what has obviously been a very

difficult decision for your family. How difficult a decision was a? I

thought she should not be in that condition. From my nursing

experience, I knew she would not get any better. I knew by the damage

that was done that it was metabolic, irreversible damage. We just faced a

future of her never improving but her body being alive. We had no

hope. Michael, Jodie was in that state. You had obviously taken the

decision as a family and reconciled yourselves to it - what then

happens? It took a lot of time to come to that decision. I was quite

happy that she was still here at first, but I did not know the impact

of the situation she was going to be in and the toll it would take on the

family and that it would lead us to this decision. Pretty soon, perhaps

a year after the accident, I knew then that for the rest of the

family, for myself and everybody, and Jodie herself, we had to take

this decision. It sounds like you both had a slightly different

reaction at the beginning. It was only through my experience. I think

I alienate it quite a few people by not having hope from the beginning,

but I did know, through my nursing experience, that it wasn't going to

get any better. I think it came across quite hard to some people,

and it did cause friction that I thought she should not be here now.

All I could see was years and years of heartache ahead. When everyone

did end up being agreed on it, did you expect it to take so long? No.

I've spent most of the last format years at loggerheads with various

authorities that were in charge, if you could call it in charge. I was

talking to Sanchia, and she was saying it is not convert, it is a

process where it is deemed to be best practice that when a decision

is taken to withdraw treatment in this situation, the Court of

protection is involved. Did you feel you were fighting? I did feel as if

I was fighting the professionals, the medics. I did a lot of research.

I have come across people like this in my working life, but they were in

situations where they were in their own homes. The situation was under

control. I wasn't involved in the dynamics of everyday life, I maybe

went in to do a dressing. To see my daughter lying there, day in, day

out, with no hope of recovery, I felt I was banging my head against a

brick wall a lot of times. I felt that the trust had just come after

ten weeks in hospital, put her in a room and funded it full stop. I had

to push for a meetings. My aim at the very beginning was for her not

to live like this. What did that do to the family? It destroyed us.

Yeah, it affected everybody differently. People had different

opinions. I have brothers and sisters, and everybody's opinion,

until you're in that situation and UC Jodie as we were, day in, day

out, lying in that same situation, you cannot understand why we had to

come to that decision. Us to continue and get on with our lives,

we had to say goodbye to her in her physical form. Even though her

spirit, I believe, had left format years ago. And you were being

dragged through a process that had gone on for years? At first, we felt

guilty. It was not our decision to make, anyway, which eased the

tension a little bit. Can you explain that? We could not make the

decision about whether they would withdraw treatment or not. So that

helped in the end? It did. You didn't feel as though you were

pushing for her to pass away. With that in mind, how do you see the

process? You felt it helpful that the doctors and the courts had an

involvement because it takes the weight off you a bit, but the

process is prolonged. How would it work best? It was the way that it

was handled that it made it prolonged. They did not follow the

guidelines they should have. Let's bring in Jenny, because you have

been researching Jodie's situation and you have had personal experience

in your own family. Your sister suffered a brain from. You're an

academic who has been looking at all the issues around this. What is

perspective? I and my colleagues have researched with 75 individuals,

around 45 families, and this situation is happening all over

England and Wales, families who slowly, over time, come to decide

that their loved one would not want to live like that. And the doctors

are in agreement that it is futile. Instead of the doctors being able to

make the decision with the family, there is this lengthy and

complicated process of preparing for court, and often, the doctors and

funding bodies involved don't know quite how to do that, and it drags

on for years, adding unnecessary, I would say, assault to the patient.

It could actually be resolved with proper expertise and care, without

involving the court. Can that actually be achieved, Professor

Wade? Can someone do it in a swift way? I think they can, if they want

an expectation if not an actual requirement to go to court. Jean is

quite correct, the decision that, the final decision, is made by the

clinical team, not Mrs hourly the doctor. And the family's role is to

advise the clinical team on what the person concerned would want, and

that is correct. If, having made that decision, they could then

execute that decision and decide to withdraw treatment of whatever the

changes, it would be very much easier that the clinical team is

advised they have to go to court, and they don't necessarily have that

expertise will stop and nobody else has that expertise, solicitors

don't. So the whole thing drags on. Why does it have to go to court with

Mike if it has been going on for appearing of time and every is no

hope of recovery,... I don't believe it does have to go to court. In the

case of Tony Bland, the court said that cases should come. We also said

the process should be developed so that they did not need to come, but

it was never developed. A practice direction was sent around in 2015.

How binding is a practice direction? Could it be tested? I am not a

lawyer, so I can't say how binding it is. My understanding is that it

is binding and we have to go to court. Did you look at doing it that

way, Jean, trying to avoid the Court of protection? Yes. Did you get very

far? At first, when you don't know much about it, you want to be guided

by the experts. But eventually, it dawned on me that I don't think they

knew what they were doing. I was researching and telling them

different things I had found on the internet is about expert witnesses,

what the court would require, even how long they could make a

diagnosis. They could have made a diagnosis in six months will stop

because of botched ups, it took to make years to get a diagnosis.

Avila has tweeted: I would not want to be kept alive by a machine if I

was in that state it is not a life. Another says: There should not be a

grey area around the law for people in aid permanent vegetative state.

How difficult is it when you're trying to second-guess what someone

would have wanted? We weren't second-guessing. It was what the

your evaluation was? We knew she would not want to live

in this condition. It was a living death. She did not have a drink of

water in four years. What was she like? She was a vibrant personality.

She enjoyed life. I had a conversation with her three, four

weeks before what happened, talking about a case, a gentleman with

locked in syndrome. She said, if I were in that situation, shoot me.

She was blase, but we did not expect something like this to happen four

weeks later. Knowing my sister and how she lived her life, how full of

life she was, and she has no quality-of-life, and like my mum

said, she could not take a drink of water. There is no response. It was

not a life. And to see her in that situation, it is not a life for us.

Extraordinary you have that conversation with her. It is ironic,

looking back. When a family have had a conversation like that and they

can say to the doctors, this is how she would have felt, how is that

treated? It is not legally binding. It is taken into account in their

best interest decision and so those wishes are weighed in the balance

with things like sanctity of life and the doctors' views. The only way

to make sure your wishes take precedence is to write down in a

living will. If she had said if I am in a vegetative state and I do not

want... That would be legally binding. At six months she could've

been diagnosed and been allowed to die with peace and dignity as the

family believed she would have wanted. One reviewer said my sisters

and I had to decide about withdrawing aid and it is hard to

see your family falling apart and we are not sure we made the right

decision. Is there hope, when someone has been like that a long

time, that they can recover? They may have thought they made a

decision that they were misinformed by the medical team. The decision is

a health care decision, they advise, they do not decide. If they were led

to believe they were making a decision, that is incorrect and

demonstrates the general failure for most people to know and understand

the law, but coming back to hope, it is true to say on occasion people

change after the time that so-called permanence has been achieved, but

the change is small, very rare and rarely worthwhile. I think we have

to understand there is uncertainty in medicine and we expect a degree

of certainty in this situation never achieved in any other aspect of

medicine, the degree of certainty about how conscious someone is and

the degree of certainty about what the future will hold. The balance of

probability is still will not change after six months. And you do not

think it is the wrong decision? I was resolute. I did know, by

reading, researching, it was not our decision to make. It was whether we

agreed or disagreed, but it was not our decision to make. Thanks for

coming in. We've had this statement

from the Ministry of Justice. A female police

officer in Oklahoma is charged with manslaughter after shooting

dead a black suspect. We'll talk to activists

who's been protesting about the issue in Charlotte -

where another black man And we talk to a mother whose

fifteen year old daughter was raped and killed during a family holiday

to Goa eight years ago. Today a court in India

returns its verdict on the two men Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of the news. The internet giant Yahoo is under

pressure to explain how it failed to notice for two years

what is thought to have been The company has urged its customers

to consider changing their passwords after hackers stole information

from half a billion accounts. Yahoo said the breach

included names and emails, The Syrian city of Aleppo has

come under a fresh wave Rescue workers say they have seen

Russian warplanes over the city. There were heavy attacks overnight;

as the Syrian government announced a new offensive to take

the rebel-held east of the city. The latest fighting comes

as the United States and Russia - at talks in New York -

failed to revive a ceasefire. Prosecutors in the US State

of Oklahoma have charged a white policewoman who shot an unarmed

black man, with manslaughter. Video footage has emerged showing

the man walking away from officers Meanwhile, protesters

have defied a curfew put in place in Charlotte,

North Carolina, where people have been gathering

for the past three nights. The demonstrations follow

the killing of a black man by police on Tuesday,

but officers decided against enforcing the curfew,

as protests were largely peaceful. There have been calls for footage

of the shooting to be released, The chief executive of Sports Direct

has resigned and will be replaced by founder Mike Ashley. The company has

attracted criticism over working practices after it emerged staff at

warehouses were paid less than the minimum wage. It is not clear why he

has left. The Prime Minister says every effort must be made to stop

the legal system being abused over allegations of serious misconduct by

UK troops. Theresa May said she is determined to stop vexatious claims

brought against the Armed Forces. Two separate enquiries are

investigating 2000 allegations against troops who served in Iraq

and Afghanistan. That's a summary of the latest

BBC News - more at 10. Middlesex resume against Yorkshire

in a dramatic finale to the County Championship. They are on 81-2 in

the second innings and a win for either team will secure the title.

Aberdeen complete the line-up for the Scottish League Cup semifinals

after beating St Johnstone. They will play Morton and Rangers Celtic

in the other match. A rusty Ronnie O'Sullivan has been knocked out of

the Shanghai Masters, losing to fellow Englishman Michael Holt in

his first tournament since the World Championships in April.

Holiday-makers are being asked to fund British Olympians when they

booked trips abroad. The governing body British ski and snowboard will

set up a fund the customers to donate when they book their

holidays. I will be back just after 10am.

Scarlett Keeling, a 15 year-old British girl,

was found dead on an Indian beach in 2008.

More than eight and a half years later, a verdict on the two men

accused of killing her is finally due later this morning.

Her mother, Fiona, has been battling for justice ever since Scarlett

was found raped and murdered on a family holiday to Goa.

Earlier I asked her how she was feeling as she awaited the verdict.

I've got no idea what the outcome will be.

What has it been like being there through the court process?

It's quite hard work, it's quite harrowing.

It's very different to our systems at home.

It's just a little room, and everybody sort of crams into it.

And have you felt that you have faith in the system there?

I have to have faith that there will be some decent

You had to fight to actually get to this stage, didn't you?

Because initially the police said that Scarlett's death

You had to fight to get it investigated beyond that.

Looking back, how do you feel about what you have had to go

I think the police lying at the beginning and the government

backing them up at the time has made this whole thing much worse than it

What did it take for you to actually keep pushing?

Scarlett's memories and just the fact that she was a good kid

and she enjoyed life and was looking forward to her future.

Tell us more about Scarlett and what she was like.

She wanted to be more grown-up than she was.

She used to sing at the top of her voice in the supermarket.

She used to ride horses a lot - we had horses - and she loved that.

We used to swim, all of us used to get into the sea

Go back to the moment, if you will, when you were on the family holiday

and it ended up in a situation where Scarlett was in

She'd wanted to go to a Valentine's party.

I had let her stay behind with Julio to work for a period of time,

providing he brought her down to join us.

And Julio was a family friend, was he?

He was a guy that we'd met, yes, and I'd questioned him

about his intentions with Scarlett, and he had a girlfriend,

She was good for business and that they were

friends, and it was quite believable, you know?

He was giving her good food and making sure

she went to bed early, things like that.

He convinced me that he was being a good carer for her.

He used to take my other children out with him for breakfast as well,

And so you felt comfortable leaving Scarlett

I'd seen the room she was going to be staying in,

I had dinner with the aunts, we've been over there

It seemed like a safe environment, yeah.

You have been criticised by people who said you should

No one will obviously understand how you have run through the scenarios

in your head over and over again, no doubt, over the years.

on the beach on her own or with her 29-year-old boyfriend.

He wasn't her boyfriend, and I didn't leave her on her own.

So I try not to take what they say personally.

And, you know, obviously I'll regret that decision for the rest

of my life that I let her go to that party.

I wish more than anything I said no and kept her with us,

but I can't change the past and I have to accept it and get on.

Is it something that you have beaten yourself up about?

A little, I guess. A little, I guess.

It didn't help with, you know, the wrong facts coming out

and people criticising me about things that weren't true.

Have you had... What sort of support have you had?

You've got a big family, haven't you?

Yes, and I've got family and friends that support me.

The press in India are very supportive,

they want the same outcome as I do.

Yeah, no, I've got lots of friends that give me support.

What difference will the verdict today make to you?

Well, it's going to be the end of a huge, a huge sort of struggle

Even though it won't be completely the end, because if it's a guilty

verdict they will appeal, and if it's not guilty, hopefully

So it's going to be the end of a long wait.

Eight years since Scarlett was killed.

Do you live with it every day?

And when do you think, and what do you think?

I usually think about her when it's quiet.

I think about how much she's missing.

She is missing the other children growing up,

missing my grandchildren, and she's missing, you know...

I see her friends still, and they're the same age

that she would have been now if she had been alive.

So, you know, I think about that sort of thing.

Is it hard being back there in India?

It makes it all fresh in my mind so, yeah, of course it's hard.

And how have your other children coped with what's happened?

You know, I'm sure it's changed them.

They've got on with their lives, obviously, they are

They were all little when they were out here.

I don't know, really. It hasn't made me not trust people, it hasn't made

me wary. I've always got a fear that I could lose another child. My boys

ride motorbikes, I think that is quite normal. After today, what will

you do? Hopefully we will celebrate, get a guilty verdict. Otherwise, we

will go with plan B, try to think of something else.

We're expecting the verdict after 10am, and we will bring it to you as

we get it. Thousands of people are demonstrating in Ireland for

abortion to be legal. We will speak to people on both sides of the

debate. With the controversy continuing

about Great British Bake-off leaving the BBC and many of its stars

leaving the show altogether, we'll talk to the stars of bake-off

programmes around the world. The nation's favourite baking couple

has been cast asunder, who will step into Mary's shoes and can they hope

to capture the same kind of magic with Paul and another person?

What gives the moisture here? It is the beef fruit and the wine. Sorry,

Ian. You've got your own freezer, haven't you? It has all melted. Why

would you take it out of the freezer? How was it looking? Soup.

Nadia! CHEERING

And then, some rather special marron glace to go on top of it.

It's baked perfectly, you haven't got too much of a soggy bottom.

I'd like you just to colout it. It doesn't look appetising.

What you have done basically is you have made

You can see the mottled effect on the top.

We can speak now to fellow Bake Off judges

And from Istanbul, Turkish Bake Off jugde Emel Basdogan.

I just want to read out a few comments from twitter.

Tom asks: Is the proof in the product or the people?

Will be interesting to see how the ratings stack up between #GBBO

Ali says: Come on, BBC, get Mary, Mel and Sue signed up

How about James Martin to replace Paul?

Tony jokes: The BBC are planning a GBBO rival, will it

Imagine the chemistry between Mary Berry and James May.

She says the BBC is to launch a rival Great British Bake Off show

And "BB" speaks for a lot of other comments online -

What do you think was my people will have their ideas about who should

partner up and watch it happen, but it is the end of an error. It is,

but it could be -- the end of an era. Yellow might there is a magic

when you have a successful show that is about the relationship between

the presenters and the public, and we have lost that. By pulling it

apart, it won't be the same, but that does not mean it can't be

better or that it can't work with advertising. Maybe there is a future

for Bake Off. It does work in other parts of the world with different

judges. Absolutely. What was your relationship with your fellow judge?

Does everyone try to mimic Mary and Paul? Kind of, except I was Mary and

she was Paul! I was the sweet one. And Carey, the Simon Cowell of cake,

was the cross one. She sounds scary. He's worked in the best

bakeries in the world. There is a tenderness, so intense,

so rich, so inviting. Gorgeous, chewy,

blindingly inventive. Completely different, the whole look

and everything. The music, the colour. So much colour. Let's look

at the Turkish version. What is it like with your setup? Were you aware

of Mary and Paul when you came along with the Bake Off in Turkey? Were

you trying to emulate that? None of us was Paul or Mary. We had eight

totally authentic... Music and -- if these gang dance are not included,

life is missing something. We had more cheerful manner. I was a very

cheerful teacher who is very strict and disciplined. No stretching of

the culinary rules. But it was full of music and dancing. My partner is

a very charming and soft hearted person. We have been looking at the

pictures of part of your show, and it does have a different look. And

as you say, it involves dancing. Is it the judges who set the tone of

something like that? It is strange, because in the first half of my

life, I never danced. I was too shy. In the second half, I included

dancing, which boosted my life, health, joy, success and everything.

From that day on, even if you see me in the supermarket, look for a woman

who is dancing. You screen tested with Mary. It could have been me. I

would have chosen Paul - those blue eyes. Very magnanimous of you! What

difference does it make to their way as show unfolds, with the dynamic

between the presenting team and the focus on the tone of the show?

The producers are looking for different points of view. If you

people with different attitudes and different appearances, maybe they

present a more diverse set of opinions about the cake, the tart,

the beautiful lemon meringue pie. I love that. Maybe we offer something

completely different. Who do you sort of see? We were reading out

text from viewers and everyone has an opinion on who should be paired

up with Paul and who should be paired up with Mary. Should it be a

similar dynamic as Mike does it need to be an older woman with Paul and I

younger man with Mary? Nigella and Paul, we might see. Even a Hollywood

star or something. I think they will have to make it more glitzy and

punchy. At the BBC, we can make things eloquently and really good. I

always think of commercial stations as far and somehow and the lack of

advertising at the British. Does the fact that the format has been

successful around the world show that it is the format is the star

and not the presenters? It can be, because people around the world love

baking. Sometimes producers miss this. The thing that we love, from

the tweets we were hearing, is that they are baking things on TV that

you can do at home, and they can identify with the failures and

successes. Who knew that baking would be so dramatic? Most of us, if

we do it at home, it is a leisurely, relaxing pursuit. In Turkey, does it

have viewers on the edge of their seats like it does here? Are you

talking to me, Victoria? I am. The drama - who knew that it could be so

dramatic? It can be, but we also need variety. I think it is an

entertainment, even when we are baking at home. A TV show like Bake

Off, which is so entertaining, can be open to more varieties. I agree

with Michael that the change can be key to diversity and new excitement.

They can be quite a different process that can be included in the

show. As we said, you did a similar thing in Australia, where the Bake

Off was switched from one channel to another. In that case, it went to a

channel with adverts to one without, and brand-new presenters. What

happened to the show's ratings? I have to be honest, they fell, partly

because... Was that gratifying? Yes! It's difficult, because each time,

you are playing with the magic that makes your show successful. When you

move it, you know, hopefully, it will be OK. Ian has tweeted: Channel

4 has rocked the public to play Paul. You have some experience of

the show on a channel with adverts. How did that work? Fans are worried

about what the adverts might mean for Bake Off here. For a lot of

viewers, the history and the stories behind recipes are an important part

of it. You need something before the advert breaks. Unless you extend the

time. You can, but it is locked into advertising. You don't think there

is much hope that? No. It is about creating a tension and a dynamic

before the advert breaks that everyone comes back and waits to

find out what happened. How does it work in Turkey? With the changes,

how do you mean? Do you have advert breaks? There is a lot of concern

that there will be advert breaks in Bake Off, and it is seen as

sacrosanct that there are not. I did not get your question. Say it again,

please. Don't worry. I'm going to ask you again, Dan. Would you screen

test again? Absolutely. Wouldn't everybody? What could the BBC do? Is

it obvious what the format could be on a baking show that would not be

too closely aligned to the format? That could run into difficulties.

People always ask what happens to the cakes. Of course, the crew eats

all the cakes. Perhaps it could be done in a different way, where we

brought the public in more, perhaps baking for a hospital or a school,

or guys working on oil rigs or something like that. We could be

helping in a different way. It could be about all of Britain rather than

a paddock somewhere in the south. This sounds good. You should pitch

it after you leave here! Thank you both very much. Just a reminder that

we have a special programme... I thought we were talking about Bake

Off, but it is something different altogether - the Labour leadership

election. It's on BBC Two and the BBC

News Channel from 11am. Let's get the latest weather

update with Matt Taylor. Let us know about who you think

should partner up alongside Mary and Paul. Let's get the weather with

Matt. Temperatures were down to one or two

Celsius in parts of the country but it was a glorious start with a lot

of sunshine around. Exceptions most notably around South Wales. Some

showers so far, but mostly dry but a changes on the way for Scotland and

Northern Ireland. Cloud behind me turning sunshine increasingly hazy

and by the afternoon, splashes of rain. Showers in South Wales should

ease. Into the afternoon there will be more cloud around but sunny

spells in much of England and Wales. East Anglia and the south-east will

not be as warm as yesterday but with a gentle breeze, feeling pleasant.

Sunshine turning hazy across North Wales and Northern End him. Hazy

sunshine in eastern parts of Scotland. West of Scotland and

Northern Ireland a different picture. Rain, heavy and persistent

in parts of Scotland. With it comes stronger to gale force winds.

Persistent rain returning to the west later here. For many, a dry

night and temperatures holding up for many because we have low

pressure pushing the weather. It is dragging up with it warmer air from

the near continent, particularly Iberia. Temperatures holding up by

night and feeling reasonably warm by day. Sunshine to begin with in

England and Wales and eastern Scotland, elsewhere, a wet day.

Strong winds. Rain pushing into western parts of Wales and England.

But pleasantly warm in the South east corner. Saturday night into

Sunday, winds shunted out of the way by the weather front that brings

rain overnight and introduces westerly winds on Sunday morning.

Temperatures cooler. In East Anglia and the south-east, rain eases away

to sunshine. The rest of the country, sunshine and scattered

showers but a blustery wind. Enjoy your weekend. Hello, it is

Friday, it is 10am. Welcome to the programme. Coming up before 11.

Hackers have stolen details of more than half a billion Yahoo customers

worldwide in the biggest security breach ever committed.

But why has it taken nearly two years for the company to explain how

names, email addresses, and phone numbers were stolen in the scam.

are expected to take to the streets calling

in Ireland as thousands of women and girls travel to the UK every

The mud slinging continues in the Hollywood divorce of former

golden couple Brad Pitt and Angelia Jolie.

Here's Annita McVeigh in the BBC Newsroom

The internet giant Yahoo is under pressure to explain how it failed

to notice for two years what is thought to have been

The company has urged its customers to consider changing their passwords

after hackers stole information from half a billion accounts.

Yahoo said the breach included names and emails,

If you have questions or concerns about cyber security you can put

those two at internet expert who will be here to answer them for you

at 11:30am on the BBC News Channel. You can get in touch via Twitter or

text questions. The Syrian city of Aleppo has

come under a fresh wave Rescue workers say they have seen

Russian warplanes over the city. There were heavy attacks overnight

as the Syrian government announced a new offensive to take

the rebel-held east of the city. The latest fighting comes

as the United States and Russia - at talks in New York -

failed to revive a ceasefire. Prosecutors in the US State

of Oklahoma have charged a white policewoman who shot an unarmed

black man with manslaughter. Video footage has emerged showing

the man walking away from officers We have love and forgiveness but

that does not excuse the crime. I truly believe in accountability and

there are consequences to action. And so again, we are just thankful

that the TPD, the mayor, they did their full investigation and this is

a small victory for us. Meanwhile, protesters

have defied a curfew put in place in Charlotte,

North Carolina, where people have been gathering

for the past three nights. The demonstrations there follow

the killing of a black man by police on Tuesday,

but officers decided against enforcing the curfew,

as protests were largely peaceful. There have been calls for footage

of the shooting to be released, The family of a British schoolgirl

murdered in India eight years ago will today hear the long-awaited

verdict on the two men accused 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling

was on a six-month family holiday when she was found dead

on a beach in Goa. Scarlett's mother, Fiona MacKeown,

has spent eight years trying to get justice for her daughter and has

travelled to India for the verdict. It is going to be the end of a huge

struggle and a wait. Even though it won't be

completely the end, because if it is a guilty verdict,

they will appeal, and if it is not guilty,

the prosecution will appeal. It is going to be

the end of a long wait. I usually think about

her when it's quiet. I think about how

much she is missing. Missing the other children growing

up and missing my I see her friends still,

they are the same age she would have The chief executive

of Sports Direct has resigned. Dave Forsey will be replaced

by the company's The company has attracted criticism

over its working practices, after it emerged that staff

at its warehouses were paid less It's not clear why

Mr Forsey has left. The FBI says it's gathering

information about an alleged incident involving the Hollywood

star Brad Pitt and his children It said it was still evaluating

whether to launch an investigation. The actor's wife, Angelina Jolie,

filed for divorce on Monday, She's asked for physical custody

of their six children. A British man who lived as a goat

in the Alps for three days has won one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes -

the spoof awards that recognise amusing or sometimes

bizarre scientific research. Tom Thwaites said the artificial

limbs he made to walk and trot with the goats could help the design

of equipment for humans. A study that examined

the personalities of rocks was also honoured -

as were the team who examined why the world looks different

when you bend over and look at it I find it hard to keep a straight

face when reading that one! That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10.30. I cannot imagine what he deemed that

we could not glean more easily. We are talking about calls for abortion

in Ireland to be made legal. Thousands are marching in Dublin on

Saturday. Let us know your thoughts and everything else we have been

talking about. We were talking about the Great British Bake Off and we

would like to know who you think should partner with Mary Berry if

they continue a baking show on the BBC. Hashtag Victoria Live is always

useful if you want to put out your views.

Over to Jessica. Good morning, I am joined by a Paralympic champion in

not just one book two sports. Kadeena Cox is with me to reflect on

an incredible couple of weeks. We will start in the Velodrome when you

won A gold medal, what was your reaction? Anybody who saw it saw how

emotional I was. It was the one to get with a double. To get the gold

medal in the cycling. My hard work paid off. I had done it. On the

track in the 400 metres, what possessed you to do two sports at

one Olympics? It just happened that way. When I got back into running, I

could not run and I got on the cycling bike and was looked at by

British Cycling and they took a pause and I got back into running

when they paused and then they came back and I ended up doing two. Are

you aware of history you have made? The first British Paralympian to win

the gold medal in two sports in 28 years. Were you aware of that

history? I was. A lot of people have mentioned it. There was not going

around on media before the games. Initially I was trying to do

something different but I did not know it had not been done for long.

Tell me how you got into Paralympic sport. It is two years yesterday

since my MS diagnosis and in September 2014, following a strict

diagnosis I got an MS diagnosis. My coach, he was a para coach. My coach

said he would do anything to get me into any form of running and I just

cracked on with it. MS is something that is aggravated by exercise, what

effect does that have on trading and how you feel after competing? It is

a balancing act. I have worked with the physio, doctors, physiologists,

because it does send my body into a crazy mode. I get muscle spasms and

during training, I can start to walk oddly. My arms start to spasm. It is

tough, but we do a lot of high-quality stuff and not as much

training, just to prevent too much fatigue from spasms. As much as it

aggravates your MS, where do you think you would be without sporting

your life? I do not think I would have survived without sport. It stop

me going into depression and struggling with my diagnosis. I had

sport to get me through. It gave me something to work for and everything

I have done is to promote MS and show other people there are amazing

things you can do after a diagnosis. It is not a death sentence, there is

so much you can do. I have loved getting back into sport. Two years

ago, I probably did not think I would be in this position. Carrying

the flag at the closing ceremony, that must've been an honour? I not

expect it. You dream about the medals and winning and world

records, but having the opportunity to be flag bearer did not cross my

mind. When I was called down by Penny Briscoe, I thought I was in

trouble! Siva is like, we have something good to tell you. I was

like, are you serious? Having an amazing games with so many amazing

performances, to lead out with the flag, it was an honour. I was lost

for words. Thanks for joining us and we hope to see you competing against

scene. Back to you. The internet giant, Yahoo,

is under pressure to explain how it failed to notice for two years

what is thought to have been The company has urged its customers

to consider changing their passwords after hackers stole information

from half a billion accounts. Yahoo said the breach

included names and emails, Robert Schifreen is a former

computer hacker, now editor of the IT safety website

Security Smart - he joins us Thanks for joining us, can you

understand why it has taken two years for this to emerge? Frankly,

no, it should not have taken this long. Yahoo has known about it a

couple of years. There have been rumours that someone on the dark web

has been trying to sell Yahoo accounts. Why it has taken so long

we do not know and they owe it to us to explain why and also to have

explained as soon as possible their accounts have been hacked. We needed

to change our passwords. People might not have changed passwords

when if they had known about it they would've done. Two years on, people

are told to change their passwords, but if any damage was going to be

done, would it be done already? To an extent, if you have changed it

recently, change it again in case a hacker was watching you change it

the first time. If you have used the same password on other systems, such

as banking and shopping, change those passwords and in future did

not use the same password on multiple accounts and then if

hackers get one system, they have one and not all of your accounts.

The passwords were encrypted. The hackers do not have passwords, but

other information was not encrypted, such as security questions. If

everything were encrypted, with this issue arise? It depends how well it

was encrypted and when they -- where they stored the passwords to

encrypted. They need passwords and private information to check what we

have typed in is correct so somewhere on the system would be

encrypted information and also passwords to break the encryption.

Because the hackers have a two year head start, they may have been able

to crack the encryption. We generally are seeing that happening,

if someone gets a database of encrypted passwords, within weeks

and months they can crack up to 80% of them so it is good they encrypted

the passwords, but the fact the hackers had a head start is

worrying. And Yahoo says it believes the

hacking was state-sponsored. If that is the case, who might be behind it

and why? That is interesting. They would be interesting if Yahoo told

us which country they thought did it, which they are not saying. You

would want to know which country has an interest in getting hold of 500

million Yahoo accounts. It might be a country that doesn't like the US

much and wants to destabilise its reputation as being secure. It might

want to destabilise the deal led Yahoo is currently being sold. It

seems odd to me, and if it is true, Yahoo needs to release more details.

Thank you for joining us, Robert. Still to come: We are expecting the

verdict shortly in the trial of the two men accused of murdering

50-year-old Scarlett Keeling on a beach in Goa. As soon as it happens,

we will bring you that. Thousands of people are expected

to take to the streets of Dublin this Saturday,

as part of the Rise and Repeal march, which calls for abortion

in Ireland to be made legal. A woman can only terminate her

pregnancy if her life or long term and girls in Ireland -

that's just over nine people a day - travelled

to the UK for a termination. Last month, two women made headlines

when they live tweeted their journey The social media account

Two Women Travel was set up by a pregnant Irish

woman and her companion. They told Ireland's leader

Enda Kenny that theirs That they were following in

the footsteps of other Irish women Pro-choice campaigns are calling

on the Irish government to repeal the Eighth amendment -

which equates the right to life of a pregnant women

with that of a foetus. Let's talk now to Janet O'Sullivan

from Abortion Writes Campaign, the And Katie Ascough -

a pro-life campaigner. I will come to you first, Janet,

because you are organising this campaign. You travelled to London as

a teenager for an abortion yourself, and you told no one but your

immediate family about it for many years, but now you campaign. Tell us

about your journey that has led you to this point. Good morning. Thank

you for having me on. If I can clarify, abortion is only available

in Ireland if there is immediate risk to life, not on health grounds.

We cannot change our laws until we repeal the eighth Amendment. I've

spoken about having travelled for an abortion when I was 18 and having an

unplanned pregnancy. It is different from what it is now. We didn't have

the internet. Abortion information is heavily restricted, and for years

I didn't know I was one of 170,000 people who travelled from Ireland

and give an address in Ireland when they go for an abortion in England.

It affects birthrights as well as abortion rights. Medical consent in

pregnancy, it has wide reaching effects. We need to end the shame

and stigma around abortion. It takes women speaking out before the law

gets change. We saw women in France speaking out before France legalised

abortion, the same in Germany and the USA. I am one of the people who

has been speaking out in the last few years to break the stigma and to

change our laws. Katie, you are a 20-year-old student in Dublin and

you think that abortion should remain illegal. Why? When we talk

about the eighth Amendment and what campaign groups are pushing for,

they are pushing for wide-ranging abortion, abortion in any case and

at any time against station -- any time during gestation. We know that

is what people in Ireland don't want. We see babies being aborted

because of a diagnosis of Down's syndrome or array cleft palate. That

is not what we are looking for. It is building up a culture where lives

like my own brother's don't matter. I had the privilege of meeting my

brother, who was 13 weeks developed. I was already pro-life, but I was

shocked at how fully formed he was at 13 weeks. He had five fingers

with fingernails. The most standout feature was a fully formed ER,

really tiny. And it would be a shame for the Irish people to lose the

eighth Amendment and to lose what has protected the lives of

thousands. In our report, it has been shown to have protected over

100,000 lives in Ireland, and it would be a shame to see that lost,

and it is not what the Irish people want. We need to talk about what

repealing the amendment would do, what it would apply to, whether it

was restricted abortion or wider abortion. We have seen that wider

abortion is not what the Irish people want. You are putting a lot

in there, so I want to put some of it back to Janet. When you hear

Katie describe having seen a brother, a feat is a 13 weeks, fully

developed, how do you react? -- a foetus. Most abortions take place in

the first nine weeks with pills. Those medicines should be available

to anyone in Ireland who wants to end a pregnancy instead of women

having to take them illegally and wasting a 14 year criminal sentence.

These medicines are used routinely for an incomplete miscarriage. They

are the best option for people. We need to have the referendum, repeal

the eighth Amendment, then we need to look at legislation and policy

for the type of services people need in Ireland. Katie, would you support

a referendum? Should people just be able to have their say? You have

said what the polling indicates, but why not a referendum? If we had it

tomorrow, it would be a huge injustice to the Irish people,

because we haven't seen a there debate on this issue. We had one of

the biggest demonstrations in Ireland ever in 2013, and I was

hardly any media coverage for it, unfortunately. We need to have a

fair debate on this issue. Importantly, we need to be talking

about what we would be repealing. Removing the eighth amendment could

really open the doors... In fact, what the abortion rights campaigners

are pushing for... To be clear, if there were a referendum, there would

be time in the run-up for there to be a full and open debate. Would you

then accept a referendum? I would hope so. This is what we have been

seeing so far will stop the march for choice on Saturday say that they

are backed by student unions. I have seen this student unions the

incredibly biased. Let's bring Janet back. The floodgates won't open.

Irish law will stay the same and that the heart of that is the 1841

abortion law, which is Victorian, the same law we have in Northern

Ireland and the republic. When we repeal, the law stays exactly as it

is. Abortion will only be legal if there is immediate risk to the life

of the pregnant person. When it comes the legislation, we have seen

that Government after Government has been very slow in Ireland about

doing this. There was drafted legislation there. By not having

proper legislation we are violating human rights. We are out of step

with the rest of the world in terms of women's right. A court ruled that

not allowing abortion is not compatible with the human rights of

women. -- a UN committee. They have been bullying the Irish people about

their abortion laws. It is this same committee... A court came to the

same conclusion. I will leave the UN alone then. There have been cases

where parents have been told that 100% their child will not live, and

some of those children are alive today. One example is Grace, whose

parents were told she would not survive, and she is now taking

swimming lessons. It can be upsetting. Would you be completely

against abortions in any of those scenarios - rape or incest? Those

are two of the most healers and abhorrent crimes towards women, and

when it comes to the eighth Amendment and the abortion issue, we

are not looking... That is not what the abortion rights campaigners are

looking to, they want wide-ranging abortion. It is a distraction from

what is really at stake and what is really being pushed forward, and the

Irish people deserve to know that. We deserve to know the facts about

abortion. We can see from scans... We are almost out of time. Janet, on

that point, how do you respond to what Katie is saying about them not

having been a proper debate? Irish broadcast laws are strict about how

this issue has to be represented and how there have to be ballots.

Whether the debate is fair or not, it is technically very balanced. --

we have to have balance. We know it will take a long time to get there.

Most abortions happen in less than the first ten weeks. We're looking

forward to asking people to join us tomorrow. The march starts at 1:30pm

in the garden of remembrance at Parnell Square. Some breaking news

to bring you. We are hearing that the two people who were being tried

in India for the rape and murder of Scarlett Keeling, the 15-year-old,

in 2008, have been cleared. A judge has cleared the two defendants of

the rape and murder of Scarlett Keeling in 2008. You may have seen

my interview with her mother, Fiona, just prior to that verdict being

delivered. She has been out there for the court hearing. She had to

push for her daughter's killing two initially be investigated as a

murder. Police said it was an accidental death initially, but

sheep washed for further investigations, and that is what has

led to this court case. She was speaking -- but she pushed for

further investigations. We will try to speak again to Fiona

if we can, in the wake of that verdict. Those two men, found not

guilty. Let's catch up with all the day's news.

The internet giant Yahoo is under pressure to explain how it failed

to notice for two years what is thought to have been

The company has urged its customers to consider

changing their passwords after hackers stole information

Yahoo said the breach included names and emails, but no

If you have any questions or concerns about cyber security

you can put your questions to internet expert Grant Paling.

He'll be here to answer them for you here at 11:30

You can get in touch via Twitter using the hashtag BBC Ask This -

The Syrian city of Aleppo has come under a fresh wave

Rescue workers say they have seen Russian warplanes over the city.

There were heavy attacks overnight as the Syrian government announced

a new offensive to take the rebel-held east of the city.

The latest fighting comes as the United States and Russia -

at talks in New York - failed to revive a ceasefire.

Prosecutors in the US State of Oklahoma have charged a white

policewoman who shot an unarmed black man with manslaughter.

Video footage has emerged showing the Terence Crutcher

walking away from officers in Tulsa with his hands in the air.

Meanwhile, protesters have defied a curfew put

in place in Charlotte, North Carolina, where people

have been gathering for the past three nights.

The demonstrations there follow the killing of a black man

by police on Tuesday, but officers decided

against enforcing the curfew, as protests were largely peaceful.

There have been calls for footage of the shooting to be released,

The Prime Minsiter says that every effort must be made to stop

the legal system being abused over allegations of serious

Theresa May told Defence chiefs she is determined to stop

"vexatious" claims being brought against the armed forces.

Two separate inquiries are investigating around 2,000

allegations against troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That is a summary of the latest news. Join me for BBC newsroom live

at 11am. We can go back to the breaking news, two men accused of

killing a British teenager Scarlett Keeling on a beach in India have

been cleared of her murder. We can bring in our correspondent. The

verdict is just through. Tell us more about how long the process has

taken for it to get to court. It has been going on eight years. It will

be devastating news for Scarlett Keeling's mother. I met her in

October 2008, once after her daughter's death and she said then

she vowed she would try to get justice for her daughter. It has

been a lengthy process and Fiona McKeown has been out to India many

times. This is not the verdict she wanted. Scarlett Keeling's body was

found in 2008 on the beach in Goa. The student from Devon has been at a

Valentine's Day beach party. Her mother left her there while the

family continued travelling around India. She thought she was safe with

the people they had met and she was staying with. A postmortem showed

there was ecstasy, cocaine and LSD in her daughter's body and at the

time Fiona McKeown had to push to get the postmortem because the

authorities initially said it was an accidental death. That Scarlett

Keeling had drowned. Following a lengthy investigation, two local men

were charged with causing her death. In the past few minutes they have

been found not guilty of that. It is alleged they plied her with drugs,

raped her and left her unconscious and then she subsequently drowned,

but both men have always denied charges of culpable homicide and

grievous sexual assault. Scarlett Keeling was found with 50 separate

injuries in the attack that was heard in the children's court. We

understand because the men have not been found guilty, India's top

investigating agency, the Central bureau of investigation, is expected

to challenge the ruling. It will mean today's verdict is not the end

of this very long case. We are hoping to speak to Fiona again, we

spoke to her before that verdict. Now we can catch up with the sport.

Middlesex resume against Yorkshire in the dramatic finale to the County

Championship. 81-2 in the second innings and a win for either team

will secure the title. Aberdeen complete the line-up for the

Scottish League Cup semifinals after beating St Johnstone and will now

play Morton. Rangers play Celtic in the other match. A rusty Ronnie

O'Sullivan has been knocked out of the Shanghai Masters, losing to

Michael Holt. His first tournament since the World Championships in

April. Holiday-makers are asked to fund British Olympians when they

booked trips abroad. The governing body British ski and snowboard will

set up a fund for donations when people book their skiing holiday.

Thanks. After two nights of violence,

police in Charlotte North Carolina chose not to strictly enforce

a curfew aimed at ending the protests which have followed

the killing of a black suspect A largely peaceful protest of

several hundred people took place. Police maintain that they believed

43-year-old Keith Scott was carrying a gun when he was shot dead,

but his family say he His family's lawyer said a video

of the incident showed that Mr Scott was making no aggressive moves

towards police in the moments before Meanwhile, in Oklahoma,

a woman police officer has been charged with manslaughter

after shooting dead The incidents have reignited

the debate over the police Charlotte's police chief said he

would not release the video of the killing to the public.

What I can tell you that I saw, and I was very clear

when I talked about this before, is the video does not

give me absolute definitive visual evidence that...

That would confirm that a person is pointing a gun.

I did not see that in the videos that I've reviewed.

So what I can tell you, though, is when taken

in the totality of all the other evidence, it supports what we've

heard in the version of the truth that we gave about the circumstances

that happened that led to the death of Mr Scott.

We can talk to a lawyer offering to take on cases of people who have

been arrested while demonstrating. It seems the protests have become

more peaceful. Were you involved? I was involved in the protest that had

heavy police involvement and did get violent and resulted in the death of

a protest. The protests tonight were completely different. The energy was

different. Why do you think that is? I think people were impulsive and

angry last night and there was a lack of involvement from the people

who lead us in the community, from clergy, from leaders in the

community. It was people who were very disappointed. The police chief

said he is determined to get to the bottom of this and has let the

family see a video of what happened but will not release it to the

public. Are you confident it is being handled correctly? No. I

personally am not as a private citizen and as an attorney, I think

a large portion of unrest here stems from a lack of transparency. The

decision not to release does not quell vat. Does not quell vat of

unrest in certain portions of the population. Is it actually clear

whether Keith Scott was carrying a gun or whether it was a book? It is

not clear at this point. His family has stipulated he did not habitually

carry a firearm and what is more important is that North Carolina is

an open carry state, which means it is legal, if you legally have a

firearm that is licensed to you it is legal for you to have that gun

visible. What is not the goal is to point or brandished a gun at anyone,

specifically a police dash dash-macro what is not legal is to

point or brandish that gun. Why has it not been clarified? The family

has stipulated... I just read this article from a news network in the

states. The gun that would have all could have been used, if there was

any, would have been small and from the angle of the film, as the police

chief said, you are not capable of distinguishing, at this point. I am

not sure what enhanced analysis could be done to that video at a

later time. How does trust get restored now? By transparency.

Policing in the United States is broken. There are good people who

are police officers but it is difficult to be a good police

officer when policing is corrupt. People of colour are

disproportionately targeted by police and the justice system as a

whole. I think we need clear directives from not only local

agents and involvement with community leaders working in

conjunction with police, but also at federal level there needs to be

oversight and I think that has been and will continue to be a large

portion of the upcoming election and how the electorate decides to cast

their vote. Thanks for joining us. Some breaking news. We hear that

Christopher Halliwell has been sentenced to a whole life order at

Bristol Crown Court for the murder of Becky Godden. He is 52 and

already serving a life sentence for the murder of Sean O'Callaghan, who

he abducted in his taxi as she headed home from a night out in

Swindon in 2011. He was already serving a life sentence for that and

as he was sentenced today for a second murder he was facing a whole

life order and that is what we are hearing he got. He confessed to

killing Sean O'Callaghan. He took -- Sian O'Callaghan. He took police to

her body and that was when he led them to Becky Godden, who had been

missing. He later denied murdering Becky Godden, but he was convicted

after a two-week trial at Bristol Crown Court at which he represented

himself. We can bring in our correspondent who has been following

the case. He has been given a whole life order, what does that mean? We

expected this to happen because Christopher Halliwell since 2012 has

been serving a life sentence in jail. Pleading guilty to murder in

2012, given 25 years minimum term. He would have been in jail until he

was about 70 but now he has been convicted to a second murder, that

of Becky Godden, and the judge said there is no need him to impose a

minimum term, which means basically he has a whole life sentence. It

started in 2011 when Christopher Halliwell was arrested over the

disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan a 22-year-old who went missing in

Swindon. He led police a field in Oxfordshire, where you see the large

chalk horse carved into the hillside. He showed them where he

had dumped her body but then something strange happened because

at that point he said to police, there is another one, I have killed

somebody else. He said it was a prostitute he had abducted in

Swindon in 2003 and on that same day he led police to another field 20

miles away Gloucs. He showed them where to dig. He paced out into the

field and said if you dig there you will find another body and they did.

They identified the bones they found to be those of Becky Godden.

Christopher Halliwell was tried for the murder of Sian O'Callaghan and

then tried for the second murder of Becky Godden, found guilty and now

we know he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Those two

murders were eight years apart and police are looking potentially at

whether he did anything else between those two. That is right. They have

openly speculated they do not know what he might have been doing in the

eight years between. They do not know if the murder of Becky Godden,

last seen in 2003, whether that was his first. They have openly

speculated that they thought he may have been active in those eight

years and afterwards. The man in charge of the murder inquiries said

although he had no direct evidence to link Christopher Halliwell to any

other murders, they were looking at potential missing people to see if

there were similarities because there were similarities between

Becky's and Sian's murder, they were both stripped, strangled and buried,

Sian was not buried, but hidden in undergrowth and it was thought he

would go back to bury her but was caught before he could. He was a

taxi driver, often driving people to Heathrow. Police enquiries are not

confined to Swindon, they are looking all over the country. It is

thought, perhaps, he could be responsible for more killings.

The Syrian military has announced a new offensive

in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where a quarter of a million people

It comes after jets pounded rebel positions in the city on Wednesday

night as a week-old truce collapsed, reportedly killing

It is unclear whether the new offensive will

Meanwhile, talks between the US and Russia on reviving the collapsed

ceasefire have broken up without progress in New York.

Caroline Anning is the Humanitarian Emergencies Media Manager

She joins us by webcam from Antakya in Southern Turkey,

Now that the offensive is well and truly on-again, what your concerns?

We're hearing this morning from Aleppo is devastating. Our partners

are trapped. They can't even run ambulances. They were hoping to

visit her severely injured colleague, hurt in an air strike

yesterday, so we know there is violence in Aleppo currently. There

is no late getting into the city and other parts of the country. -- no

aid. Until you stop the violence... There were over 60 air strikes

between last night and this morning. Equipment and ambulances have been

destroyed, so it is almost impossible for people to help or to

bring a. We need a ceasefire to hold and then to be able to deliver aid.

They did not manage that in New York this week. The world leaders were

there and they could not find agreement. It is not good enough to

put your hands up and say, we could not help so all these people we be

trapped and bombed their game. They have to keep working to find a way

to get aid into those areas. We have seen lots of descriptions about what

life is like in Aleppo, which has been under siege for such a

prolonged period, but tell us the sorts of stories you hear. We're

hearing that children are malnourished and sick. Hospitals are

overwhelmed. When they take people in, there is blood on the floor, no

beds for anybody. I don't want to be too stark, but it is such an

unimaginably awful situation for people. Never is very little food

getting in. Yesterday, one of our people was injured in an air strike.

He's 25, a medic. His house was bombed as he was preparing for the

arrival of his first baby. He had just got the cot, baby clothes and

blankets, which are not able to get, and it was all destroyed and he had

to be taken to hospital. These tragedies are repeated day in, day

out, not just in Aleppo but all over Syria. There has to be more we can

do to help. Thank you for joining us. It is 13 minutes to 11th.

More trouble for Hollywood's star couple.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced on Monday

Now, the FBI has said it is considering whether to launch

an investigation into an alleged incident on an aircraft carrying

According to gossip website TMZ, the allegations stem from a flight

last week when Mr Pitt is alleged to have got drunk.

We can speak to Caroline Frost, entertainment editor at the

Huffington Post. Every day brings a new level of drama in this break-up,

doesn't it? What is the latest with the FBI? I have to say, I have been

in Beverly Hills all week, and my phone is alive when I've flown into

London today. Either we are talking about Bake Off or Brangelina. There

was a hint that an incident happened last week that was because of the

breakdown of their marriage, and now what has become apparent is that it

culminated in a huge row on a private plane, flying to their

private home in France. The rumour is that Brad Pitt had a big row with

one of his children and was apparently wasted, the quote said.

The authorities are being forced, as they have two, to investigate. It

sounds dramatic. Because it happened in the air, that is where the FBI

has jurisdiction. It sounds like it all sort of suddenly ended in this

cataclysmic moment of drama, and prior to that, the perception had

been of this couple that were always out together, seen at red-carpet

events looking happy. Presumably, it doesn't happen like that. Were the

rumours for some time? Yes. If you think about how they started out,

they are almost a mirror image of each other. They were the glossiest

of the glossy. In the last two years, especially since Angelina

Jolie went through her double mastectomy, she has cut a much more

serious figure. We are far more likely to see her at the UN rat

refugee camps fulfilling her role for the UN. Brad Pitt has gone from

strength to strength in the acting world. His production company was

behind 12 Years A Slave. Who knows what goes on inside a marriage, but

they are on different paths. Are you surprised that it is playing out in

public? They could keep it quiet if they wanted, presumably. None of

them has said anything about the other in anything other than glowing

terms. Brad Pitt said a few years ago that choosing Angelina Jolie as

the mother of his children was the wisest thing he ever did. Angelina

Jolie has been utterly loyal, when perhaps other wives would have

differed. She said she loved Brad in all his forms, shapes and sizes. I

think this is why the media jumped on it, because it is such a

cataclysm of differing opinion. Hollywood being what it is, it will

split into two very polarised camps. It is obviously an environment where

they are both in the same business, and there are lots of events which

might require them both to be at the same Place, particularly the Oscars.

They did not appear on the same red-carpet for years with Brad

Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston until four five years ago, when

Jennifer Aniston had John Maher on her arm. It was a well-publicised

meeting of all of and Jennifer Aniston acquitted herself with

impeccable grace, beaming at them in the front row of the auditorium.

They are likely to cross. They have six children, which is a lot of

interwoven life still to come. Good to talk to you, Carolyn. Thank you

very much. Research that involved a British man

living in the Alps as a goat for three days has won one of this

year's Ig Nobel prizes. The spoof awards, which have become

almost as famous as the real Nobels, have just been handed out

at their annual ceremony at the prestigious American Harvard

University. Other studies honoured

during the event examined Thomas Thwaites

attended the ceremony The Ig Nobel prize for biology is

awarded jointly to Charles Foster and Thomas Thwaite, for creating

prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move in the

manner of and spent time roaming hills in the company of goats. Well,

other prizes this year include the psychology prize, which went to the

team... Other prizes this year include

the psychology prize, which went to the team that asked a thousand

liars how often they lied, and the chemistry prize was awarded

to Volkswagen for their efforts There's often serious intent behind

some of the research. Dr Helen Ashdown is

from Oxford University. She was awarded an Ig Nobel prize

last year for her study that looked at whether pain while going over

speed bumps can be used to help I brought along my prize so that you

can have a look. Hold it up and explained what it is. This is one of

the Ig Nobel prizes. Do you keep it on the mantelpiece? Yes, proudly. We

realised that lots of patients coming to hospital with suspected

appendicitis who then went on to have a diagnosis said that the

journey to hospital had been really painful and that they had pain going

over speed bumps, and we wanted to test that and see if it was true,

backing it up with real research evidence. We set up a study to find

out. Wasn't it obvious what the answer would be? So, we found that

of the patients we looked at who had suspected appendicitis, 97% of those

who went on to have appendicitis had had pain going over speed bump, and

that is important because it means that it is an excellent ruling out

test, which means that if you don't have pain, it is unlikely that you

have appendicitis. People think that appendicitis would be easy to

diagnose, but it is not. Anything that can help doctors to narrow down

the diagnosis is really helpful. So it is really interesting, then. It

has been a bit ridiculous because of the fact that you got the Ig Nobel,

but actually, it has a good scientific basis. Totally. And the

Ig Nobel prizes are supposed to be research that first makes you laugh

but then makes you think. There is pretty much always a serious side to

the research. The findings are being used across the world, which is nice

to see. And that is what we wanted to do, to do research that would