staff but not the area and her own staff but not to the public. in 201810 members of staff from one small service, ten of them which is extraordinary, they raise those concerns to an adult member of staff. and that went to nhs england and that is six years ago. 2019 when we started reporting on this programme, we made a series of films and we obtained some transcripts unofficial reviews into gender identity development service and in those several commissions raise some very serious concerns about the care of the service was offering. here isjust a about the care of the service was offering. here is just a taster.

that was an actor speaking but we are going back years and i do not think that there's anything to celebrate here, to be honest. yes, this programme and other notable exceptions in the media have spoken, the sunday times but really, where has everyone been, where has nhs england been all these years? where has the oversight beam? it is a powerful drug rolled out without the demand for robust data to support that. where has the regulator been? it took our report on newsnight and the care quality commission to get them ruled as inadequate. and where has large swathes of the media been and sadly i would include the bbc on that side of this programme. 50 children let that side of this programme. so children let down, you see that that

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i think it is part of a portfolio of approaches in that includes you when regulation, immunity action and government action as well so i can say this is a constructive element of a much broader set of actions in presidents. of a much broader set of actions in presidents-— presidents. what you think we will see auoin presidents. what you think we will see going forward, _ presidents. what you think we will see going forward, do _ presidents. what you think we will see going forward, do you - presidents. what you think we will see going forward, do you think i presidents. what you think we will. see going forward, do you think you will see more cases being taken to court of governments? absolutely. climate limitation _ court of governments? absolutely. climate limitation is _ court of governments? absolutely. climate limitation is on _ court of governments? absolutely. climate limitation is on the - court of governments? absolutely. climate limitation is on the rise - climate limitation is on the rise across the world and with climate

impacts and temperature increase things as was mentioned in your story, i think climate litigation is just going to go up and up as climate change bites harder. ihe’ll climate change bites harder. we'll see if there _ climate change bites harder. we'll see if there is _ climate change bites harder. we'll see if there is any _ climate change bites harder. we'll see if there is any meaningful action. thank you so much for your time. turning to the us now — the parents of a school shooter in michigan have been sentenced in a landmark case. james and jennifer crumbley are the first to be held responsible for a gun attack carried out by their teenage son. ethan crumbley killed four classmates and injured seven others in 2021 at oxford high school. he is serving life in prison without parole. his parents were both found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter and face 10—15 years in prison. here's our north america correspondentjohn sudworth.

ethan crumbley, was just 15 years old when he was given the semi—automatic handgun as an early christmas present. he put it in his backpack, took it to school and carried out the mass shooting that claimed the lives of four of his fellow students. such is the epidemic of gun violence in this country. of course, that his sentencing last year to life imprisonment without parole may have been just another footnote. except for this unique development — the charging of both of his parents with involuntary manslaughter. they were convicted in two separate trials over the past few months. and i think you're right, gun control campaigners will be hoping a minimum of ten years for each parent to be served — will send a message that will resonate in every home in america where guns are kept within reach of children. we should say, though, some legal experts suggest that that possibility can be overstated. there are particular circumstances in this case, and the negligence being alleged was so severe, the parents inability to secure the guns, theirfailure to heed their son's own warnings about his declining mental health, that we can overstate it.

but nonetheless, for those who feel there is a failure of political action here, they'll take some comfort today in this message from the courts. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

in the uk, mp william wragg will no longer sit in the house of commons for the conservatives, after he shared colleagues' phone numbers on a dating app. a party spokesman said he'd voluntarily given up the whip. on monday evening mr wragg stepped down as vice chairman of the 1922 committee of conservative mps. he also told the speaker he is resigning as chairman of another commons committee he sits on. a court in australia has ruled that men can enter a women's—only exhibition in tasmania. the ladies lounge exhibit at the museum of old and new art wanted to highlight historic

misogyny by banning male visitors. the venue had insisted that rejecting men was part of the art, arguing australian law allowed for discrimination "designed to promote equal opportunity" for a group of people who had been historically disadvantaged. the judge rejected that argument. you may have heard of the langauge, esperanto, aimed at making international communication easier, with everyone able to speak it, alongside their mother tongue. well it didn't really take off. but now, thanks to ai, conversing in another language, or as many as you like, has just become a cinch. here's james clayton. the world is more connected than ever. conversations with anyone, anywhere, are just a click away. there's just one problem — we don't all speak the same language. i really, really wish that i could, but unfortunately i can't speak any other languages fluently other than english.

untranslated what if i could speak polish? thanks to new ai apps, though, i can give at least the impression of being able to speak pretty much any language. this one is called heygen. so i'm going to speak like this. i do a quick video of myself, upload it onto heygen and wait. and then, out pops a video of me, speaking the language that i chose, in this case spanish. and here's the really cool bit — when 0mar, the producer on this piece, got into the shot, it detected his voice was different to mine and translated his voice too. you are in shot, my friend. i've actually managed to fool

some friends using this. it really is impressive. in london, one company called synthesia is using this kind of tech to translate ai—generated corporate videos into any language. many of these companies, of course, have divisions all over the world whom they need to, it's a sales force maybe that they need to train, right. and with this tool, they can create the base material in english, they can then translate it into different localities. but the company's founder says the tech has other benefits, too. we're seeing that with ngos all over the world where they can produce video content instead of written content for people who may have a difficult time reading and it will do it in local languages. so just this kind of dissemination of information in people's native language via video and audio, it's very, very powerful. as it gets easier and easier to change the words that come out of our mouths, there's also a worry that this kind of technology could increase the amount of misinformation on the internet. but when it comes to translating educational videos or sending

a message to someone in their own language... untranslated james clayton, bbc news. the nobel prize winning physicist, peter higgs, has died. he was 94. he gave his name to the higgs boson, the particle that gives all other particles mass, laying the foundations for all matter, in the universe. the existence of the higgs field was confirmed in 2012 with the discovery of the higgs boson. pallab ghosh looks back on his life. we now know that the cosmos is held together because of a particle called the higgs boson. it was an idea developed by peter higgs more than 60 years ago. it was seen as far—fetched by his fellow scientists back then. but fast—forward to 2012. applauded by the world's physicists and the rest of us, too, for transforming our understanding

of how the universe works. i've never been in a scientific meeting like that before because people got up and cheered and stamped. i regarded it as cheers for the home team, and that was what it was really about. maybe they were cheering me too, but that was a minor issue. after decades of searching, by smashing the insides of atoms together, researchers at the large hadron collider at cern finally discovered the higgs particle. and today, leading scientists who worked at cern sent their tributes to the man as well as his research. professor brian cox said... professor fabiola gianotti, the head of cern, said...

his achievements won him the nobel prize in 2013. a former neighbour congratulated me on the news and i said, oh, what news? and so she told me that her daughter had phoned from london to alert her to the fact that i had got this prize. peter higgs's theory is the bedrock of modern physics and the discovery of his particle is regarded as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 21st century. the physicist peter higgs, who's died, at the age of 94. the king has been presented with a new set of banknotes by the bank of england. in a ceremony at buckingham palace, andrew bailey, the bank's governor, and sarahjohn — the chief cashier — explained the new security features, and said this was first time

there has been a change of monarch on the notes, as the late queen was the first to feature. they will go on general distribution injune. here's the moment the king was presented with the new notes. we have come to you with your bank notes. so this, of course, is quite a big moment because we've never changed this often on the banknotes because the queen was the first sovereign to be on the banknotes. so surprised. yeah. mattel has launched the first major redesign of scrabble for 75 yea rs. the classic board game will now be sold with a simpler version printed on its underside, with helper cards, so people can team up and play together. it comes after feedback from some younger players, who said they found the traditional game too difficult. they hope it will reduce the competitive nature of the game. that's all for now — stay with bbc news.

hello there. tuesday, unfortunately brought more stormy weather with it and coastal flooding with the high tides, as well as inland flooding. a brief ridge of high pressure is pushing that low pressure out the way, but the weather fronts are hot off the heels again off the atlantic with more rain to come through the day ahead. this is what we had on tuesday — 60 millimetres and more across both galicia in north wales. many of the other wettest places seeing 30—0 millimetres of rain. many of the other wettest places seeing 30—110 millimetres of rain. and despite the showers having ease, the rain and the winds through the night and it turns chilly with a touch of frost, potentially a few areas first thing and some mist and fog in the south. already, temperatures are rising in the west ahead of the next band of rain that you may have seen there. so wet through the morning rush

across northern ireland, underneath this weather front. and as it comes in, it's introducing milder atlantic air. so it will turn misty and foggy over the hills as well as the fog first thing further east. once it sets in across scotland, on and off through the day, early brightness and sunshine in the east replaced by that rain as it meanders its way eastwards through the day. you can see it does ease off a little bit in southern parts, but it's got a legacy of cloud left in its wake. so a mild day, where we see any breaks — perhaps 16 in northern ireland. but there's a met office warning for the west of scotland. again, another a0 millimetres, possibly more over the hills. further south, there'll be a steady spell of rain and lots of misty, murky weather over the hills. another pulse comes in through the evening overnight, particularly scotland and northern ireland. it tends to weaken as it pushes southwards, but all the cloud and the wind and the winds will be strong again today, perhaps not as strong as yesterday, but they hold the temperatures up through the night. and a fairly brisk wind will continue with us on thursday. maybe some mist murk first thing, particularly in the south under the remnants of this weather front. but actually, once that clears out

the way, we might see some brighter skies and sunshine coming through before the next pulse of rain starts to materialise across western parts again. but look at the temperatures on thursday. it's looking mild, in fact, warm in the strengthening april sunshine. and that milder, warmer atlantic air is with us through thursday and indeed friday to end the week, perhaps even start the weekend, but not for long because we get some colder air starting to dig in behind it. and you can see for the weekend or by the end of the weekend, it's a return to slightly cooler weather for most.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from edinburgh. i'm stephen sackur. for most of the 21st century, scottish politics has been dominated by the scottish national party, the pro—independence party seeking a divorce from the united kingdom. but right now, well, storm clouds hang over the snp. they're facing a police investigation of their financial affairs, their polling numbers are down and they stand accused of breaking a host of political promises. my guest is the leader of the snp and first minister of scotland, humza yousaf. has his party lost its way? first minister humza yousaf, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.

first minister humza yousaf, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. by any measure, first minister, it's been a pretty difficult first year for you as first minister. why do you think the going is so tough? look, we've been in government for 17 years. over 17 years, you have challenges, of course, as a government. but in the last year... i often get asked that question about challenges.