this is bbc news. the headlines at 3pm. in paris, 3 man armed with a machete is shot and wounded after attacking a soldier outside the louvre. french authorities are treating it as a terror attack. the is responsible for the security all the museum was attacked. it was all the museum was attacked. it was a terrorist in nature. npower announces a dual fuel price rise of almost 10%. the government says customers are already paying more than they need to. president trump warns iran it's "playing with fire" over its ballistic missile test launch. iran says it will never initiate a war. in the next hour — vegetable rationing. some supermarkets restrict the number of iceberg lettuces and broccoli you can buy, as bad weather in spain causes shortages. and it's all

water under the bridge: operators at tadcaster‘s bridge re—opens, more than a year after it collapsed in the floods of christmas 2015. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a french soldier has shot and seriously wounded a man who attacked guards at the louvre museum in paris. a police spokesman said the man — who was wielding a machete — had shouted "god is greatest" in arabic. the french prime minister said it appeared to be a terrorist attack. france is still in a state of emergency because of the attacks in paris and nice. our correspondentjonny dymond sent this report.

in the heart of the french capital, outside one of its greatest treasures, the louvre, an attack in broad daylight. translation: we heard gunshots. we didn't know what it was. then we evacuated the employees and we left. that is what happened. we were stressed. some colleagues were crying, and we were afraid, we were panicking. translation: it happened very fast. really, it all went quickly. everyone was panicking. we thought of our lives. we saw death coming for us with everything that has been happening at the moment. we were very, very scared. the reason for the shots, a machete attack by a man on soldiers guarding the area, explained a police spokeswoman. translation: in the commercial area, the man threw himself at a soldier who was there, armed with at least one knife,

or bladed weapon, possibly two, with the appearance of a terrorist. the soldier was injured, and his colleagues fired at least five rounds and one bullet hit the individual. he was very seriously injured in the stomach area. france has seen much like this, and worse, before. in attacks in 2015, first 12 then 130 were killed across paris. six months ago, more than 80 were killed in nice. both times, the attacks were claimed by islamist terrorists. before he launched his attack, the man called out "allahu akhbar" — god is great in arabic. a short time ago, macka de gea was

the latest from the french capital. there is as yet no identification of the attacker, the man you made his way onto the louvre. we believe he attempted to try to get into the shops that are underneath the museum. he was stopped by a soldier and told he couldn't take the two bags he was carrying into the shopping area and, at that point, a p pa re ntly shopping area and, at that point, apparently he reached for a machete and attacked one of the soldiers. the soldier was lightly wounded on the head. another soldierfired off five shots. we understand three of them hit the attacker, one of them hitting him seriously in the stomach. he was described as being between life and death. he is now in hospital. there was talk of a separate man being involved, someone

acting suspiciously around the area. he was questioned, and nothing else came of that. it was the fact that, as he launched his attack, he cried out allahu akbar, which is arabic for god is great or god is the greatest, which set alarm bells ringing and prompt the french prime minister to say that this was an attack in his words "terrorist in natu re" attack in his words "terrorist in nature". we're still awaiting identification, whether he was a french national or not, and we are still waiting to find out what his motive was. and of course france has suffered so many terrorist attacks in the last couple of years. so many armed security forces on the streets of paris, i suppose this is vindication for putting all those officers on the streets, the fact that they were able to intervene so quickly. you're absolutely right. the authorities will be saying to themselves, that worked, and clearly it did, having heavily armed people on the streets. it is quite

surprising to see in france, outside public buildings and museums like the louvre to see the military on the louvre to see the military on the streets, it is quite shocking, but the authorities will be looking at the plus side of this in that it did work. the downside is that it will be deeply alarming prescience, french citizens, to people thinking of visiting france, and europeans as well, because this is notjust a french problem. these kinds of attacks are popping up across continental europe with some degree of regularity. so, yes, you're right, it's a vindication of security measures but another shock for a country that has suffered previously over the past couple of yea rs. previously over the past couple of years. —— grievously. theresa may is attending a european union summit in malta where she'll brief leaders on her recent meeting with president trump. downing street says she wants relations with the eu to be constructive and positive. ahead of the talks, the german chancellor, angela merkel, said the leaders needed to focus discussions on europe, rather than "dealing with other parts of the wo rld ".

our europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports. —— our european correspondent galla ntly —— our european correspondent gallantly gave as an update. we are told that they made progress on the migrant crisis, trying to shore up the libya to italy flow which continues in smaller numbers, by providing money for the libyan coast guard to work at some capacity. but overshadowing all of this has been the focus on donald trump, given that it's the first real time eu leaders have had a chance to come together and reflect on a turbulent two weeks when they have spoken about how the eu has been a vehicle for angela merkel, donald trump has said that. fascinating dearfriend jean pauljunker, the president of the eu, who said that whilst is not necessarily an immediate threat, he something about which we deserve an explanation. he thinks donald trump

doesn't understand the nuances of the eu, and he would like to see that. we've had donald tusk, the president of the european council including the new berwick in administration as one of the threats to the ideological future of the eu along with russia and so—called islamic state as well. given that theresa may is fresh from a trip to united states and she has brought a message to the nato members of the eu, that they need to pay up, how is that likely to have gone down given the context that britain wants to leave the eu? theresa may has had a slightly different role. the longer the idea of trying to explain and help britain extricate itself, downing street said theresa may went in with a potential new offering that she could be the conduit and a bridge builder with donald trump given that she was the first one to see him and to get this commitment, he said he's100% behind nato, given

that he said in an interview recently he set it was obsolete, so on the one hand there is good news in the meeting, and about 20 minutes from now she will explain that conversation she had with him to leaders who are interested to hear that, but she will also ask them to dig deep into their pockets when it comes to nato spending, that some eu countries should be spending 2% of gdp, when they are not, and donald trump has made it clear that america should not be stumping up. the lithuanian president was asked whether she is a bridge builder, does theresa may have a new role? she said, we don't need that, we are already liaising with the americans through donald trump's twitter account. we can go live to malta now. donald tusk, the eu president, is speaking. let's listen in. we

will work with the iom to step up volu nta ry will work with the iom to step up voluntary returns from libya to countries of origin. it will work for the iom to step up returns from libya to countries of origin. there will be additional measures to implement those priority actions and we will act in full respect of human rights, international law and in close cooperation with organisations such as the unhcr. we have decided to support member states bilateral activities directly engaged with libya. therefore we welcome the memorandum of understanding signed yesterday by the italian and libyan prime minister 's as a mother important than encouraging sign that things are about to change for the

better. the european union, in our actions, will support italy and libya. after the press conference we will meet to discuss the future of the 27 states what are meeting marking the 60th anniversary of the meeting of rome. we started a discussion on the future of europe. the development of the international scene reminders of how important a strong eu is. transatlantic operation remains an absolute priority, but at the same time, we know that we have no other option than to regain confidence in our own strength. thank you. this, ladies

and gentlemen, i am strength. thank you. this, ladies and gentlemen, lam happy to strength. thank you. this, ladies and gentlemen, i am happy to be strength. thank you. this, ladies and gentlemen, lam happy to be back in malta. this is in fact my seventh visit to this marvellous country. i am really impressed by the way the maltese authorities are organising this visit. the police is, frankly, efficient. the civil servants are, like ours... functioning in the way i can't even describe, and given the fa ct i can't even describe, and given the fact that this country has only small human resources, i have to say once again, once again, smaller countries are better when it comes to european union, than the big fish. i don't have many things to add. i would simply like to remind

you that the european commission has made a recommendation ten days ago oi'i made a recommendation ten days ago on the south mediterranean route. we had to do that, we wanted to do that because 180,000 refugees were crossing the mediterranean. after that the managed to bring down the numberof that the managed to bring down the number of refugees coming from turkey to the greek islands by 90%. this was something that had to be done. we were preparing this communication in close cooperation with president tusk. i visited the libyan prime minister yesterday. everything that the commission was proposing was adopted and i am happy enough. thank you very much, we will ta ke enough. thank you very much, we will take your questions. who's the

biggest threat to their future of the eu, donald of vladimir putin? —— donald trump or vladimir putin? the biggest threat is if we don't acknowledge that right now, we are living in different times, historic times and we need to get our act together. and simply unity for unity‘s sake is not enough. we can unite on irrelevant subjects. we can unite on irrelevant subjects. we can unite on irrelevant subjects. we can unite on the state of the thing that does not make the first peoples lives, we need significant debate the future of the eu, and to say the truth. today, we gave a good signal in the fact that, with such controversial subjects such as migration, not only there was no controversy, because we work and prepared well, but we actually

finished our meeting on time, showing those results. so it is about results that things need to be done. and we found agreement for the first time in quite a number of months on such a thing. you see more united on donald trump ban on russia. who would you say is the bigger threat? maybe it is a theoretical question because objective thinkers would say that the only real threat is that we would not be united enough towards challenges, because, for us, the new situation is maybe not felt as a challenge, but it can change into a real threat if we are not united enough, if we have not courage

enough, if we have not courage enough and we are not consistent enough. today, ifeel that enough and we are not consistent enough. today, i feel that the still 28 member states, that we are united enough to respond properly for this challenges. the second question from the lady in red to the right. i have a question for presidentjunkcer. the central mediterranean migratory route has been accurate. sometime but this action today was swift. what assurances can you give to the maltese presidency and how optimistic are you that the member states will now be implementing the outcome? who are starting the preparation of this issue from the

14 —— preparation of this issue from the 14 -- moti preparation of this issue from the 14 —— moti spy master was in brussels in november last year. then the commission paid a visit to this country in january. the commission paid a visit to this country injanuary. we were discussing this with the maltese prime minister, the deputy prime minister, with donald tusk, we have had a well—prepa red minister, with donald tusk, we have had a well—prepared meeting and i have no doubts that everyone will do its part in implementing this decision today. we will take a third question. i believe the british prime minister theresa may had a special intervention perhaps at lunch over her meeting with president donald trump. do you foresee a special role in the transatlantic dialogue for the uk?

no, no, no, you do it. that is, in the future we have to count on the 27 because of this reason. because of brexit. but our intention, the invention of all of us is that what we need is a strong transatlantic friendship and relations as possible and inside europe or outside europe, they can be very helpful and i have i'io they can be very helpful and i have no doubt after the discussions today and what theresa may said i have no doubt that today we can feel some kind of spirit of solidarity among the 28 member states, and this group

has strong will to protect our unique relationship with the united states, the transatlantic guarantee for freedom and international order. we are really determined. theresa may, other prime ministers, the whole eu. i have no doubt that all of us, this is still the highest political priority, to protect our relations with the united states against its enemies. thank you, we will take one last question before the summit of the eu 27 continues. the gentleman in the front row. two

questions if you will allow me. the first is for mr muscat, before the summer the migration flows to italy should be stopped. you confident that with the package today this will be the case? and the second question is for president tusk, in your letter about the future of the eu, you mentioned the us administration as a threat to the eu. did you get support on this threat from the other 28? nothing for me. you miss a chance! with regard to the agreement between italy and libya i don't think it is a silver bullet. it is not a case where one decision will solve everything. it must be taken in the context of the decisions we took in valletta 15 months ago or so, which are being implemented, which we want to see implemented faster and in the

next few days we have a meeting of senior officials that will proceed with the implementation of those decisions. 0bviously with the implementation of those decisions. obviously the agreement will help a lot, because there are a number of new elements which, until now, were missing. the libyan authorities are asking for assistance in monitoring their borders, not only maritime borders but also land borders. they are asking for assistance in managing the camps were refugees, potential refugees and migrants are kept. and there is a direct engagement with there is a direct engagement with the tribes especially in the deep south of libya, the people who, out of necessity right now, are collaborating with criminal gangs, and during the peak of the migratory season they can gain anything between five and 6 million euros per

week out of these trafficking, all these human beings. so the fact that there will be direct and focus involvement at different levels, i think it is an extremely positive signal. whether it will be enough, time will tell. just today, we had 12 other vessels leaving european shores for the direction of europe. two days ago, moo people were rescued at sea by the italian navy. so, we have two keep on the pressure. i would say that now, the next phase, all this working is creating humanitarian corridors, making it possible for people to come to europe safely without the need to risk their lives crossing the desert and crossing one of the most dangerous season award. -- in

the war. we are going to leave that press c0 nfe re nce the war. we are going to leave that press conference in valletta in malta. —— in the world. we have some breaking news to bring you this afternoon. the united states announcing new sanctions against tehran. this is a statement coming from the treasury, saying that there are sanctions against 13 individuals and 12 entities, 12 organisations, and 12 entities, 12 organisations, and this comes days after the white house has put iran "notice" over a ballistic missile test and other activities. there has been something ofa warof activities. there has been something of a war of words with donald trump attacking the iranian leadership on twitter. we have also heard some breaking news on the french terror attack at the louvre. president francois hollande, who is in malta, said that the soldier who shot and

wounded that assailant had shown courage and the termination and prevented a terrorist act. also hearing from the french culture minister that the museum will reopen tomorrow after that attempted attack there. more on that from paris as we get it. the energy company npower has announced big price rises. standard tariff electricity prices will rise by 15% from next month, and gas prices by almost 5%. the company blames increases in wholesale energy costs, and the cost of delivering government policies such as smart meters. but the regulator, 0fgem, has questioned the rises, telling suppliers they should absorb the costs of wholesale price rises by buying energy in advance. our business correspondent john moylan reports. we don't think energy should be complicated. try telling that to npower‘s customers. from next month, 1.4 million are facing a jump in energy tariffs. npower says it is the first major rise in more than three years.

it is blaming rising wholesale gas and electricity costs, and the impact of government policies like the roll—out of smart meters. npower‘s dual fuel customers will pay an extra £109 per year, that is 10% more. it includes a.8% on standard gas prices and a whopping 15% increase on standard electricity braces. —— prices. this is a significant price rise will that will cost a million customers £100 per year more on energy, so customers really need

now more than ever to look around to get the best deal. it's not the first of the big suppliers to move. edf customers will pay around 8% more for electricity from the 1st of march, and some warned that other firms may follow suit, adding to pressure on household budgets. but the energy regulator has criticised the move, saying... and npower‘s move could spark a political row by highlighting the rising cost of government policies like subsidies for wind farms. today the department for business warned that where markets are not working, it is prepared to act. britain's vegetable shortage is continuing with some supermarkets rationing the sale of produce. the shortage is due to bad weather particularly in spain where there's been snow and now the worst rainfall for 30 years. tesco and morrisons are limiting customers to three iceberg lettuces and morrisons are reported to be preventing shoppers from buying more than three heads of broccoli. frankie mccamley reports. they are part of our staple diet and we have them with almost every meal. so for many, vegetables are not considered a luxury. but with poor growing conditions in southern europe, the iceberg lettuce is the latest vegetable

to fall victim to the shortage. it was courgettes last month. so much so that supermarkets have been selling out and are now restricting the number we can buy to two or three. the rations are not targeting us when we go for our weekly shop. let's face it, who can get through three lettuce in a number of days? what they are trying to do is stop small businesses from buying in bulk when they are facing shortages. and for weeks some market sellers have struggled to get their hands on the lettuce. you cannot get it and whatever you can get is very expensive. and it's affecting aubergines, lettuce, courgettes, chinese veg has gone through the roof. when it goes like that ijust back off. and this is the reason for the shortage, severe weather in spain. it's where the majority of the uk's vegetables come from through the winter months, but crops have been damaged which has meant a poor harvest. and if things don't change

there, the prices of some vegetables may continue to rise here. what i do is buy what i can afford. £1.49 i thought it must be 49p, they must have marked it wrong, i did not question it, i did not realise there was a shortage. it is not clear how long rations on one of the country's favourite salad vegetables will last, but if things don't change, it could be for months. as we were showing you earlier, a bridge in north yorkshire that links the two halves of tadcaster has been reopened. children from the town led by the communities and local government secretary sajid javid walked over the newly completed bridge. it had been destroyed by flooding at christmas 2015, leaving residents with a ten mile detour.

quite a nice day in tadcaster. let's see what the weather is doing for the rest of us. i like the look of surprise in ben‘s voice. if he watched the forecast he wouldn't have known that it was going to be glorious there! but it's not going to be like that everywhere. further west and south, this is what you have got on your plate. along the channel coasts, lots of white caps for the next few hours. some of these winds, will be looking at 60 mile an hour gusts coming along to english coastal counties, then pushing further north during the course of the night. an area of low pressure with some hill snow working its way north. we have seen cold air tucking into cornwall. there it is, writ large across the british isles. there will be some ice across the southern half of britain. further north through saturday, strong winds and hill snow. for northern ireland

and hill snow. for northern ireland and scotland, dry and sunny for the rest, and some bits and pieces of rain out towards the east. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. a man armed with a machete is shot after attacking a soldier outside the louvre in paris. one other man has been arrested. president: has paid tribute to the soldiers carried by preventing a terrorist attack. the government says customers are paying more than they need to for their energy bills — after n—power announces a dual fuel price of almost 10%. theresa may is meeting eu ministers at a summit malta. she'll be briefing them about her meeting with president trump and her governments plan for brexit. and a bridge back over once troubled waters. after 12 months, a town reconnected

as tadcaster bridge reopens. bell to the sports centre. good afternoon, pep guardiola has fears over sergio aguero exiting. the argentine was dropped in favour of gabrielle in the win over west ham on wednesday and speaking to the media he said although he understands why aguero's future has been discussed, he remains one of the key players. guardiola also says that they can play alongside one another. jose mourinho has said that his side deserved to win every game they've drawn the season. the

portuguese manager has seen his side dropped several places the season. every drop we deserved victory. —— drawer. we never had a drawer where we could say we were lucky, we got more than we deserve. it is less than we deserve and play for. but the reality is the reality of the points and we lost. mark hughes says he sees no reason to exclude saido berahino tomorrow against west brom. it has been confirmed that he served an eight—week fa suspension last year. they're also newspaper reports that he failed and out of competition drugs test. this though is only confirmed by either club or the fa. hejoined stoke last month from west brom. he served the ban

when he was at west brom, i don't wa nt when he was at west brom, i don't want to comment on why. i will go back to say what i said then and i will say it again, he never played for me or did play regularly for me because he wasn't fit, for whatever reason. it was a personal matter and we are under strict obligations not to release any of that information and that is an fa directive. we had news in the last few moments that parliament will debate a motion of no—confidence in the governance of the football association on thursday the football association on thursday the 9th of february, the culture media sport committee has announced that. six nations begins this weekend in scotland post ireland, england take on france and wales travel to italy. tournament last year saw england secure a grand slam and infact year saw england secure a grand slam and in fact they went unbeaten in

all of 2016 and will be firm favourites this time around. preparations have been good. the concern is when you prepare so well, you can be complacent coming in two games, we have had a good week this week, played reigned at training today to keep a few people on edge, the challenge from here on in is two sharpening acts. the first game is scotla nd sharpening acts. the first game is scotland versus ireland at murrayfield, the irish will be missing key players. the scots have been spurred by the return of hugh jones who hasn't featured since his display against argentina. jones who hasn't featured since his display against argentinalj jones who hasn't featured since his display against argentina. i think since the autumn, the expectation has gone up a bit. but that is nice for us. it shows that people have

confidence in us and bacchus. so just another challenge. inside the six nations returns on the bbc news channel at 6115 this evening. many thanks. in the past hour resident trump has imposed sanctions on 30 people in a dozen companies in response to the ballistic missile test. mr trump said his predecessor, barack 0bama, had been "kind" in making a deal with tehran over its nuclear programme and warned that he would be taking a very different approach. it comes after tweets by the president yesterday, in which he warned iran they had been "put on notice" after their test of the missile at the weekend. iran's foreign ministerjavad zarif has responded, tweeting that his country is "unmoved by threats" and that they would never use their weapons except in self defence. with me is kasra naji

from the bbc‘s persian service. very interesting response from iran, ina very interesting response from iran, in a sense more measured than president trump himself. that in a senseis president trump himself. that in a sense is quite surprising. it is in the leaders in iran haven't decided how to respond to these provocations from the us. they don't know what is coming their way, everyday is a new thing and as you said in the last few days they been pretty restrained, the reigning foreign minister tweeted in response to a tweet by president trump which said iran is playing with fire. he responded so we won't start a war

but if we are attacked we will defend ourselves. that is his message. we are back on the past. the rhetoric from the us and now increasing the sanctions have raised the temperature seriously and it's dangerous in the persian gulf when the iranians revolution routes are closely operating in close proximity to the american navy so anything can happen there. it's very dangerous. you started by saying iran was unsure how to respond to this fiery rhetoric. whiley does the balance lie within the reigning government? there is quite a lot of debate already. they are generally quiet and have been the last few days which shows there is a debate going on within the leadership as to what to do. there are those people are

saying we have two respond strongly and speak tough to the americans but obviously there are other people like ordinary iranians who say let's not provoke these people in washington, let's not give them any excuse. like firing that missile on sunday which started the latest series of actions and speeches and threats. given the way in which things stand, we have had the sanctions imposed by president trump on 13 individuals and a number of organisations, can we now expect retaliation by rand? probably because this is the first action by the new administration. the day before they put iran on notice and spoke about not playing with fire,

all of that was rhetoric until today with the raising of the sanctions, this is the first action from the new administration against iran and i suppose action has to have a reaction and the iranians will probably come up with some kind of reaction, i don't know what they can come up with but they're probably debating that as we speak now. good to talk to thank. the defence secretary is warning that russia is using sustained cyber attacks to target democracy and infrastructure systems in the west. sir michael fallon says moscow is "weaponising misinformation" in an attempt to destabilise nato. his claims come on the same day a report by mps criticises the government's approach to cyber security saying responses to large data losses have been "chaotic 0ur correspondent daniel boettcher reports. attacks in cyberspace are risk to

personal data and infrastructure and there are increasing risks about cyber warfare as a risk to national security. sir michael fallon has accused russia of carrying out a sustained campaign of cyber attacks against the west. we find ourselves dealing with the country that is westernising information and has created the post—truth. and finally the cyber weapon to disable democratic machines. russians have engaged in cyber attacks against the united states of america. russia stands accused of meddling in the presidential election, us intelligence said that all sanctioned at the highest level below that is denied by the kremlin. germany believed hackers targeted its parliament in 2015. the defence

secretary ‘s warning follows commons by the nato secretary general last week. the reports we have seen from many national intelligence services including from germany united states and others that rushes behind many of the cyber attacks and we have seen the same pattern against nato. meanwhile an influential group of mps has warned that the government needs to raise its game to counter cyber threats, the public accounts committee says miniter ‘s haven't consolidated an alphabet soup of agencies and they are struggling to find enough people with skills. agencies and they are struggling to find enough people with skillsm something goes wrong it could close down hospitals, we could have a loss of important data, there are serious things which could happen now with the skills of hackers. the cabinet 0ffice the skills of hackers. the cabinet office says the government has acted with pace with the investment and the national cyber security centre which is running forfour munn the national cyber security centre which is running for four munn says it has transformed how the uk deals

with cyber security. joining me now from our 0xford studio is emily taylor, editor of the journal of cyber policy and associate fellow of the think tank chatham house. how worried should we be in general do you think about cyber attacks, not only from russia but from other adverse is? as we become more interconnected, it's inevitable that our dependence on these networks allow vulnerability will increase. chatham house that a study last year on civil nuclear facilities and the readiness of cyber attacks and also on satellites. here you have or technologies that are powering a lot of critical infrastructure and they we re of critical infrastructure and they were designed for the cyber environments, they were designed to be connected. 0ne environments, they were designed to be connected. one of the difficulties that comes through in your report at the moment, in really

being able to pinpoint who is responsible for attacks. even if you are sure it was russia, even if you could take out russia from the whole picture, he would still have a very worrying landscape. there is a definite uptake in the number of distributed denial of service attacks and other attacks emanating from everywhere and we should be clear that russia denies this and we shouldn't be too quick to jump to conclusions. the early reports of the total attack which turned out to be bya the total attack which turned out to be by a child was treated to islamic terrorism or russian our attribution is difficult. having said that shouldn't we rebalance and spending, for instance we spend more on defending against cyber attacks and may less on old —fashioned defending against cyber attacks and may less on old—fashioned defence, ta nks may less on old—fashioned defence, tanks and planes and warships. we

have to understand in any warfare environments, cyber will be a dimension and we need to be prepared for that. or so we as individuals and as businesses need to play our part. evidence suggests that by taking simple steps in improving cyber hive june like taking simple steps in improving cyber hivejune like patching softwa re cyber hivejune like patching software could defeat 80% of cyber attacks action is required by lots of different levels including the individual. i hear what you say about russia, there has been a lot of allegations, not least to american intelligence at the russians did use cyber attacks during the election. also propaganda, so—called fake news, quite a wide range of weapons. quite a lot of disinformation and

espionage, this is not new. espionage is called the second old est espionage is called the second oldest profession in the world, but who have to understand how fake news amplifies part of the concerns of this are the algorithms that social media and other sites used to serve as content so that we end up with our own echo chamber just as content so that we end up with our own echo chamberjust being served with things that we agree with. that is an area that we have to understand better. and also do something about. how do you impose restrictions on social media for example? it is not about imposing restrictions on social media or anyone else. i think it is about going back to trusted sources of journalism were fax i checked. there was very interesting stuff that i recently by the bbc in ways of educating people the importance of independent fact checked journalism.

good to talk to. a bridge in north yorkshire which links the two halves of tadcaster has reopened. in the past hour — the children of the town led by the communities and local government secretary sajid javid — walked across the re—built bridge over the river wharfe. it was destroyed by flooding just after christmas in 2015 — leaving residents with a 10—mile detour. live to our correspondent danny savage who is in tadcaster for us now. at clu bs at clubs like a great day out. at clubs like a great day outm was. a real sense of community on the bridge. an hour ago, there was a bit of a delay as finishing touches we re bit of a delay as finishing touches were being put on. now traffic flowing over again for the first time in 30 months and this is the river wharf which caused all the

problems all those months ago. looking benign today but there is a footbridge which was putting in february last year which is redundant now. that will disappear in the next few weeks and not be taken away because everybody will be expected to use this bridge which has been restored after the last 30 months. that is talked to a few of the gentlemen involved in this project. john smith, you are the head of bridges in north yorkshire and you are from the county council, very quickly 13 months, watts was the delay, because it is such a bespoke bridge? we had to get the temporary bridge in which the curse a month. then we had to find out what went wrong with the bridge because we could just pile into it, we had to make sure it was safe and then the water came up and we were fighting with the river so a lot of things went on behind the scenes that you didn't see. much of the work goes unrecognised, was there a bit of a feel—good factor today seeing hundreds of people walking

over the bridge? definitely. i was thrown because i didn't know which way they would go. a lot of hard work but seeing that raises your spirits. david you're from the council, what do you make of today? fantastic how it is brought the community together. we knew people would turn out and the crowds are fantastic. the weather was nice, the ribbon was cut, there was a big cheer so how much of a problem has this been to the community? you have a genuine community which has been split in half so they have been going around and it has been a real big problem for them. john understated the efforts of those involved, the technical difficulties working on a river of this nature and a fantastic bridge so to be honest workmen have an incredible job. the bridge here is fixed, the

river wharf hopefully won't cause any similar problems but lots of people going over the bridge chip beeping horns and ijust happy basically that this town is reunited and the central of 50 metre long bridge is open again so that means that trip to get to one side of the town are back again. thank you very much in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first, the headlines on bbc news. a french soldier guarding the louvre museum in paris has shot and wounded a man who tried to attack a security patrol with a machete. it's being treated as a terrorist incident. the government says customers are paying more than they need to for their energy bills — after n—power announces a dual fuel price of almost 10%. the prime minister is meeting eu leaders at a summit in malta. she'll be briefing them about her recent meeting with president and trump and her brexit plan for britain. time now for business ——

today vishala joins us from london's tech—hub where she's spending the day looking at the impact of brexit and president trump on the uk's silicon sector. that's right, i'm here in east london at a place called the tech up. places like this exist. the technology companies to create an office environment, they can come in and connect to the wider technology community. their ceo and founder is elizabeth varley, let's start with the stewa rts, elizabeth varley, let's start with the stewarts, immigration is a key issue for lots of sexes. a free movement of people might be a challenge for recruitment going forward but you don't think it'll be too much of a hurdle? historically since i grew up there is a lisbon

skills shortages, in the 50s and 60s a lot of jamaican skills shortages, in the 50s and 60s a lot ofjamaican people came over, in the 60s and 70s, irish construction workers, in the 80s and 90s its work financial services people and i have never been turned down for a regression bringing people into this country and the latest to our fruit pickers in norfolk and text— based latest to our fruit pickers in norfolk and text—based but i think there is an environment for that is there is an environment for that is the envy of europe that the government vote not to let go and they will encourage people to come here. the government is keen on nurturing talent and developing skills here, what do you think they need to do to fill that gap?|j skills here, what do you think they need to do to fill that gap? i think there is definitely a gap here and it is one of the reasons that tech companies are recruiting from around europe and around the world. sometimes specialist skills are really ha rd to sometimes specialist skills are really hard to find because they are in such niche areas. with the things the government are talking about in

industrial strategy is about different ways of training people. i think we can look further than universities and our current institutions for more support for on—the—job training and full support for companies who are training people lost their working. do you think also perhaps that's recruiting talent from abroad might be actually not as hard as people perceive it to be because government will recognise that as an important market to access ? that as an important market to access? it is a crucial point in the negotiations ran brexit, we really need to make sure that the regulations that the visa situation is maintained in a way that makes it easy for small companies that may not have the financial wartime resource to go through that process and that they can manage to do so to get the right people for the right job. time resources, filling out forms, do you not think there could

bea forms, do you not think there could be a bit ofa forms, do you not think there could be a bit of a challenge?” forms, do you not think there could be a bit of a challenge? i think one of the biggest complaints from brussels are the amount of force people filling so i think it's not beyond the wit of man government to allow people to have 25 visas pre—booked to bring people in on fa st pre—booked to bring people in on fast track and if theyjust want to know who is in the country, and who is not so by giving them visas that should be a fast track process i hope would be enabled. briefly we are suing lots of silicon valley companies in the us being vocal about immigration bands there, do you think the uk will be looking to the us to recruit talent post brexit? if certain groups of people are going to be a welcome in the us then the uk be likely to open their arms to those incredibly talented people. i think that we ready look at the us and india anti—mouse were too high people into the tech but europe still remains a massive boom

with the free movement of people for small companies to start the people in need. we will be back in an hour's time more technology news. thank you we will see later. council officials in lanarkshire have begun seizing cheese from a cheese maker which the authority says was implicated in an ecoli outbreak last year in which a three year old girl outbreak last year in which a three yearold girldied. outbreak last year in which a three year old girl died. errington cheese — who says its products are safe — won an interim court order last week to force south lanarkshire council to force south lanarkshire council to either abandon its case against them or initiate new proceedings. the council says it's acting to protect public health. let's take a look at the weekend weather now. the weekend is not looking too bad weather wise, there should be some useful out and about whether but of course it deteriorated quite

significantly through this afternoon across southern and western areas. seems like this with heavy rain and we have seen winter in this, some snow even down in the south—west part. the winds gusting around 50—60 miles an houron part. the winds gusting around 50—60 miles an hour on the south coast. through this evening the winds will escalate further into lincolnshire, snye potentially over the hills of wales, not pleasant if you're driving home this evening. as we go to the latter part of this evening and overnight, the weather system and overnight, the weather system and the low pressure will travel further northwards. to the south potential for more further northwards. to the south potentialfor more rain but in between it will turn quite chilly and will be cold enough to night for and will be cold enough to night for a frost and one or two icy patches so if you're heading out there is a weekend warning for wintry weather.

wintry weather will wake us up across northern scotland tomorrow morning and still that mix of rain, sleet and snowy weather, strongest winds and a few showers will follow but as you can see a lot of dry and u nsettled but as you can see a lot of dry and unsettled weather. then we have to go to this next area of low pressure which could batter france, gusts of wind is at 90 miles an hour. but great for those travelling to see england and france at twickenham. it does look as though we'll have some clout to spoil the sunshine and many errors will have decent weather. rain and wintry weather is slow to clear in scotland. temperatures won't be as high as they have been. i see issue through saturday night as the band of showers moves its way northward so falling onto frozen surfaces for an icy start to sunday.

again they ease away and this low pressure may keep the rain off. an awful lot of dry weather but it's just not awfully warm. a little rain to come at times, but it does look as though we will see some sunshine and some overnight frost with patchy fog. the warnings were on the website. this is bbc news. the headlines at apm. president hollande says soldiers who shot a terrorist prevented an attack. president trump tweets a warning to iran. president trump warns iran it's "playing with fire"

over its ballistic missile test launch. iran says it will never initiate a war. npower announces a dual fuel price rise of almost 10%. the government says customers are already paying