tonight at ten, victims of modern slavery in every large town and city across the uk. the national crime agency says tens of thousands of people are being held against their will and exploited. it's horrible, i tell you it's just horrible. you cannot even now ijust feel like, my heart starts beating a little bit. i'm arresting you on suspicion of modern slavery. the scale of modern slavery in britain is much bigger than previously thought, say the authorities, with hundreds of police investigations under way. they're getting limited finances that are coming from and controlled by the boss, their living accomodation is being controlled by the boss, and the boss has taken their id and passport documents. we have a special report on the teams trying to rescue the victims and track down the perpetrators. also tonight. president trump steps up his warnings to north korea as he spells out the consequences of any plans to attack. they should be very, very nervous.

i'll tell you what. and they should be very nervous. because things will happen to them like they never thought possible. supermarkets withdraw some products after 700,000 potentially contaminated eggs get into the british food chain. badly injured in the manchester bombing, the couple who've spent more than two months in hospital. we hear their story. and no fairytale ending for botswana's star sprinter — as he finishes short of the mark in the 200m final. he made it to the 200 metres final despite illness. coming up in sportsday, we'll have a full round—up from the world athletics championships including battery and a johnson—thompson in the highjump. —— including katarina johnson—thompson in the highjump. good evening.

slavery, trafficking and sexual exploitation can be found in every major city across the uk and the scale of the crime is much higher than previously thought. that's the warning from the national crime agency. it says the number of people affected by modern slavery across britain is thought to be in the tens of thousands, and people may encounter victims in everyday life without realising. more than 300 police operations are currently targeting the criminals involved, and in the months of may and june, 111 arrests were made across the uk. 0ur uk affairs correspondent jeremy cooke has been given exclusive access to teams working to combat modern slavery. i should warn you that his report contains flashing images. 0n the move in bradford. sounds like they need our help. martin is an investigator with the charity hope forjustice, a team dedicated to fighting modern slavery. today, it's urgent work. it looks like they've been exploited for a period of time. within minutes he's on location.

you're looking at the first moments of freedom for a polish couple desperate enough and brave enough to run from those who trafficked and exploited them. tonight we report on how modern slavery destroys lives. those dedicated to stopping the traffickers know the road to recovery can be long and painful. some of the individuals have been through horrific experiences. they are beaten on a daily basis. they're living in horrendous conditions and all this is to keep them in line so that they don't even think about escaping. the police and hope forjustice investigators find trafficking and slavery across the country, from building sites to brothels, to the local car wash. what's happened to you is not ok and it's actually a crime. an ancient crime, in britain, in 2017. filthy living conditions, long hours, slave wages. lives controlled in every aspect.

do you see victims? i do, yeah, just purely from what's happening to them. they're getting limited finances, they're controlled by the boss. their living accommodation is controlled by the boss and the boss has taken their id and passport documents, so they have no means of leaving even if they wanted to. some victims are constantly on the move, used as objects for backbreaking work, controlled by fear. this man is being supported by the palm cove charity after suffering four months of hard labour, for £140. it's just horrible, i tell you, it's just horrible. even now ijust feel like my heart starts beating a little bit. you were frightened, weren't you? yeah and it's just... i cannot describe these feelings. but you weren't locked in. you could have opened the door and walked out. yeah, yes. why didn't you?

i don't know, i don't know, i was scared, scared. what was going to happen if he comes after me. so they've got the pin code and the card. back in bradford our polish couple are finally into safety, just beginning to find the confidence to tell the team of a life of exploitation. of his long hours on the building sites, of her endless shifts. and then the phone goes. it's the traffickers, tracking them down. where are you now? we moved out. you moved out? yes. why? you know exactly why. i'm not going to work for free. when we're going to see each other, we're going to have a talk. so we won't see each other. we won't see each other? no. i'm giving you my word of honour that we will see each other and when we see each other we're going to talk. the team here have heard enough. it's time to move.

we've heard them making indirect threats to them over the phone. let's get them out of bradford. what we're doing today is recovering human beings. and for those who can't run, the best hope is rescue. there will be a knock on the door. we are there to rescue these people. simultaneous raids on two backstreet brothels. the modern slavery unit, acting on intelligence that young, eastern european women are being exploited as prostitutes. the priority is to get to the women, to reassure them. we can help safeguard you and see if there's anything else we can do. and then they're led away to a place of safety, perhaps to the beginning of something better than this. this is people's lives that it's affecting, so it's essential that we get it right in how we investigate and how we identify. we have seen an increase in these offences. we're not afraid to tackle it and go and take it on. i'm arresting you now on suspicion of modern slavery...

taking it on means that as well as rescues there are arrests. so a successful operation, arrests have been made and victims are being recovered. but in many ways all of this isjust the beginning. the women from the brothel have now arrived at a safe location, specialists from the palm cove charity piecing together their stories. and how did you travel here? they can choose to enter the national referral mechanism, which offers safe housing and support. but it only lasts 45 days and there are warnings that victims emerge still vulnerable, at risk of re—trafficking. if we are not breaking that cycle then all that work goes to waste, so it's really crucial to concentrate on the long—term sustainable support for victims and survivors of human trafficking and modern—day slavery. it's that vicious cycle which can be so damaging.

in a secret location we meet a young woman who's escaped a life of prostitution several times — only to be re—trafficked. do you feel safe here? yeah. the life now, this time it's much better. the charity which runs this place knows the danger and unlike the official programme it offers refuge for as long as it's needed. this house is very nice for me. finally the support she needs — counselling, a vital part of recovery. the way she's been treated is like she's not a human. physically being used and physically assaulted, sexually abused, being used like she's a piece of meat — and repeatedly, you know, day in, day out, multiple times throughout the day. when you think about those people who did that to you and may be doing that to other people today, what do you think of them? i think we cannot call them people. we cannot call them people.

it's the police. do you speak any english? all of the painstaking police work is about bringing traffickers to justice... any particular reason why you have their passports? and victims to freedom. the prime minister calls it the greatest human rights issue of our time. modern slavery, a widespread crime, behind closed doors, across the united kingdom. jeremy cooke, bbc news. and if you want to contact the modern slavery helpline, the number is at the bottom of the screen now. president trump has again ramped up his warnings to north korea tonight, saying his threat to unleash "fire and fury" if pyongyang threatened the united states may not have been tough enough. he said north korea should "very, very nervous" if it attacked the united states, or any of its allies. his latest warning came

after north korea said it was working on plans to fire four missiles overjapan which would land off the coast of the us territory of guam. from washington, our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. it's from his golf club in newjersey during his working vacation that donald trump is managing this stand—off. and this afternoon he was back in his trademark suit and tie, and using his trademark tough talk, his response to the latest threats from pyongyang. i will tell you this, if north korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attack, of anybody that we love or we represent or our allies or us, they can be very, very nervous. i'll tell you why. and they should be very nervous, because things will happen to them like they never thought possible. earlier this week he warned north korea of fire and fury, raising the chilling spectre of nuclear confrontation. his only regret?

maybe that fiery rhetoric wasn't incendiary enough. the people that were questioning that statement, was it too tough, maybe it wasn't tough enough. they've been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years, and it's about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries, so if anything, maybe that statement wasn't tough enough. earlier, on news bulletins in north korea, the customary martial music and also an unusually specific military threat. the hwasong i2 rocket will be launched by the north korean people's army and will cross japan and fly 3356 kilometres for 1065 seconds, before hitting the waters 30 to a0 kilometres away from guam. this is the hwasong 12 missile on parade in pyongyang in spring. kim jong—un can back his fiery words with weaponry. today, on the tropical island of guam, it wasn't so much

a case of fire and fury, as wet and wild. the news crews converging there producing what looked like tourist advertisements, people heading to the beach rather than fleeing. locals not particularly concerned at the threat that north korea missiles might soon come raining in. we're used to the whole ebb and flow of hearing that we're going to be bombed and then it not happening, and hearing about it again, so it's not anything that's new to us. he never follows through, so i wasn't really concerned. i think it's probably like a distraction maybe, maybe a political kind of move on the us and korea, so just to get attention, maybe. guam is in the firing line because it is american territory that is home to two big us military bases. an attack here would be an attack on america. as well as refusing to back down

from the threat of fire and fury, donald trump did say that he would consider negotiations with north korea. he also spoke of his ambition, as he put it, to de—nuke the world. but there is this fear of a terrible miss calculation that could turn this war of words into a military confrontation. nick bryant in washington, thank you. a number of supermarkets have taken products containing eggs — like sandwiches and salads — off the shelves, after it emerged that 700,000 eggs, potentially contaminated with pesticide, have made their way into the uk's food chain. but officials say any risk to public health is very unlikely. the eggs came from holland, where police raids were carried out today. emma simpson has this report. dumped and discarded. this belgian farmer has had to destroy notjust his eggs, but his hens too. the produce contaminated with fipranol, an insecticide which is banned for use in the food chain. but that's where it's ended up,

on a potentially massive scale. translation: you cannot put your eggs on the market for three months. and so i took the decision to kill the animals, because it is really too expensive. more than 100 farms are affected in the netherlands too, although this one's in the clear. and millions of eggs have now been pulled from supermarket shelves on the continent. the reason — fipranol may be popular for getting rid of fleas on pets, but it can be dangerous to humans. again but here in the uk, we produce our own eggs, but also import them. eggs, ubt also import them. and some of the eggs from affected farms have ended up here too. we're not talking about the kind of fresh eggs like these, that we buy off supermarket shelves.

the affected eggs went into processed foods, like sandwich fillings and salads. just a few days ago the food standards agency said 21,000 eggs were affected. today, that shot up to 700,000. sounds a lot, but that's just 0.007% of all the eggs we eat every year. there's no reason why people should avoid eating eggs. 0ur assessment is, it is very unlikely there is any public health risk. but we think people deserve food they can trust, and that means not having food that has in it a substance that simply shouldn't be there. four supermarkets are withdrawing a limited number of products as a precaution. but others will already have been consumed. yet another food scare, highlighting just how complex supply chains can be, and how easily problems can spread. emma simpson, bbc news. two months after the devastating fire at grenfell tower in west london, it has emerged that only a small amount of the £18 million raised to help survivors has been handed out. the figures have come from the charity commission.

0ur news correspondent frankie mccamley is here. this money is badly needed. why the delay? well wa nt well want the charity commission say is that this is one of the most complex fundraising operations and has had to deal with. it is working with a number of charities that have raised more than £18 million. audits figures have shown today is that of that amount just 2.5 figures have shown today is that of that amountjust 2.5 million has been distributed. speaking to local residents, people who lived in the tower, there is anger and frustration building. people questioning whether money is, why they haven't seen it. the charities commission does say there were initial teething problems. they couldn't identify some of the people who needed this money. say that some people haven't come forward yet, perhaps because they are traumatised and they want to respect that. it also says it wants to look at a long—term plan and that is what some of the charities are doing, they are

holding some money back. they want to speak to the local community to plan for the future. frankie mccamley, thank you. a brief look at some of the day's other news stories. police looking for a runner who appeared to push a woman into the path of a bus as she crossed putney bridge in west london have arrested a man. the woman suffered minor injuries. a 50—year—old man was arrested in chelsea on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. he's since been released on bail. relatives of some of the 29 people killed in the 0magh bombing in 1998 are to sue northern ireland's police chief constable for alleged failings in the subsequent investigation. the group believes mistakes were made by police, allowing the killers to escape justice. the attack, carried out by the real ira, was the deadliest of the troubles. uk industrial production shrank in the second quarter of the year, according to the latest officialfigures. production fell by 0.4%, mainly due to a drop in manufacturing output. the figures underline the economy's dependence on the service sector, which makes up about four—fifths

of the uk's economic output. the number of people waiting for routine surgery in england injune, was at its highest for nearly ten years. nhs england has admitted that more than 4 million people were on lists for operations. other key targets missed include urgent referrals for cancer care, as our health editor hugh pym reports. he's had his operation but he had to wait a long time for it. andy waited more than a0 weeks before going in for surgery on his foot to relieve serious arthritis. the nhs target is 18 weeks. during that long delay, everyday life became increasingly difficult. i couldn't walk great distances, and it was quite painful afterwards. taking an awful lot of painkillers to sort of try and keep the pain down. and although i do it work and sit at a desk all day, i was finding the middle of the afternoon i had to stop, lie down, and put my feet up just because it was too painful to sit any longer.

the total waiting list for routine surgery in england fell back a decade ago after government investment. but in recent years, it's crept back up again, and injune, it's estimated to have gone above 4 million. most worrying of all perhaps is that this is the sign of a trend that is going in the wrong direction. progressively we are seeing more and more people on the waiting list. and with continuing austerity there is no end to it, potentially. yes, i'm near thejc, they say! labour leaderjeremy corbyn, campaigning at a hospital today, said the nhs could not go on like this and had to be properly funded. the party also said cancer patients were being let down, with sharp increases in waiting times for treatment. but nhs england argued that more operations are carried out every year. a spokesperson said "more than nine out of ten patients were waiting less than 18 weeks. we're working hard to cut long waits and the number of patients waiting over a year for treatment has dropped." key waiting time performance targets

have been missed again but nhs england's leaders are stressing today that in an important aspect of emergency care, progress has been made. that is the treatment of patients with heart failure after they arrive in hospital. a new report shows fewer lives were lost in england and wales after heart failure, partly because more specialists and new medicines were available in hospitals. scotland, wales and northern ireland have also seen rising waiting lists for surgery, though with different target standards. andy's10—month wait was unusual but more patients around the uk are experiencing longer delays, more pain and frustration. hugh pym, bbc news. more than two months after the manchester bombing, which left 22 people dead and more than 100 injured, nine people are still being treated in hospital. they suffered terrible injuries when a suicide bomber detonated his device at the manchester arena in may. robbie potter and his partner leonora 0gerio were waiting to collect their daughters

from the ariana grande concert. they were standing right next to the bomber. judith moritz has been talking to them about their long and challenging road to recovery. you may find parts of her report distressing. i remember everything of that night we went through, everything. it's probably only a 20, 30—second thing, but it feels like an hour. from a concert to a coma. this was robbie potter with his girlfriend, leonora, after the manchester arena explosion. they stood next to the attacker and lived to tell the tale. i actually looked at the idiot, the bomber. he was only ten metres away from me. i remember his face to this day. i will never ask his name, i don't want to know his name. there's no point hating a man that's already dead. but you know it was him? yes, i know it was him, yes. they had gone to collect their kids from the concert. the children were safe inside, but their parents were in the lobby

when the bomb went off. the brightest flash i have ever seen in my life. it was like a cloud of mercury exploding. you see bits of silver flying everywhere, which was obviously the bolts and nuts he'd packed into his bag and his body. my girlfriend went flying, hit the floor. i felt something in my chest. there was a group of four or five kids, i think there were. i justjumped in front of them and told them to follow me, and i started running down. i felt a lot more shrapnel hit me. she dived, where she obviously collapsed and fell on the floor, but i found out i'd punctured my lung and had a couple of bolts stuck through my heart. you came very close to not surviving. it's a miracle you're here. yes, it is. the doctor called me the miracle lad. even after the operation, i don't think they thought. he said it's still touch and go. this bolt fired from the bomb straight into robbie's heart. he cheated death by a hair's breadth. you can see the two ribs here, that's the back of the ribs... the bolt was removed with incredible precision by this surgeon at wythenshawe hospital.

it was wedged between the back wall and the front wall of the two blood vessels, so a millimetre either way at any velocity and... thankfully it didn't, but we wouldn't be having this conversation in this setting. 0ne millimetre difference. literally. one, two, three, four, i declare a thumb war. robbie's daughter tegan was separated from her dad when the blast happened. next time she saw him, he was in a coma. she called him names to try and wake him up. it's just hard to see, with him just lying there, not talking. having machines all over him. so you spoke to him? yes. tegan said "come on fathead, it's peahead. " obviously that's our names we call each other. and as soon as that happened, the eyesjust lifted. from that day, with force every day. robbie's girlfriend leonora was also badly hurt and sedated in hospital.

waking up, she didn't know what had happened to him. the first question i asked was, where is he, and they said you are in the same hospital. and i was like... i started to cry. leonora has multiple fractures to both of her legs. she and robbie each face many months of rehabilitation. we want to look after each other but we can't do that. we can't do that because we are both on the mend. morning, ladies. before the blast, robbie played rugby. now every step is an effort, but he says he's determined that one day he will play again. judith moritz, bbc news, wirral. now there was no fairy tale ending for isaac makwala of botswana, the star sprinter, in the final of the men's 200 metres in the world championships in london, he had

fought hard to get there after being banned from the stadium this week after an oral virus outbreak. in the end it wasn't to be, as our sports correspondent andy swiss reports. he has become the and heralded hero of these championships so after beating illness could isaac makwala beatties rivals, among them wayde van niekirk of south africa following his 400 metres victory? isaac makwala burst out of the blocks but would the extraordinary last couple of days catch up with him? berdych hopes lay with mitchell— blake but as they rented the bend it was too close to call. wade fan nick charged but it was an unexpected name that grabbed the headlines. commentator: it's guliyev! turkey's guliyev taking gold ahead of wayde van niekirk with mitchell— blake forth and isaac ma kwa la mitchell— blake forth and isaac makwala six. for the botswana runner after such hope, disappointment.”

had a good day yesterday, i think it boosted me a lot. earlier there had been hopes of a british medalfor eilidh doyle, that carter of america took gold, while doyle, the british tea m took gold, while doyle, the british team captain, came last. in the women's 5000 metres laura miller is back on track afterjust missing a medal in the 1500 —— laura muir. it's a chance to make a mark. she seemed to be cruising in her heat but by the end laura was struggling, trailing in seventh, exhausted. she's scraped through to the final but has a disappointment in the 1500 metres taken its toll? the might ultimately to this man. isaac ma kwa la ultimately to this man. isaac makwala may have taken the pundits but it is guliyev who has the title. andy swiss, bbc news.

our sports editor dan roan is in the london stadium. so it wasn't to be for isaac makwala. that's right, but i think it will still be the greatest story of this championships, he came here relatively unheralded and by tonight he is one of the worst won most well—known athletes in the world. it has become a saga, visitors forced withdrawal through illness and then this remarkable scenes when he was denied access to the stadium by the iaaf officials and then his reinstatement. he's received great sympathy and affection. a shame he could not finish with a win. a rather embarrassing episode for the iaaf, the way it was handled. wayde van niekirk was also denied an historic double gold. itjust underlines that once again the scripts which perhaps the organisers would like to see happen don't a lwa ys would like to see happen don't always come to pass in sport. dam,

thank you. sir alan ayckbourn is one of britain's most successful playwrights, best known for his comic portrayals of the middle classes. but now at the age of 78 he's entering the world of science fiction for the first time. his new play, the divide, premieres at the edinburgh festival tomorrow. it's set one hundred years from now, in an england where a deadly contagion has separated men from women. 0ur arts editor will gompertz, asked the playwright what prompted his change of direction. it was, i think, an attempt by me to bridge my ageing writing personality to a younger generation, and the way to do that, i thought, was through the medium of science fiction. science fiction is a great leveller. it gives you an even playing field, where you say to your younger audience, "now this is a world that i don't know but i have created, and you don't know, and you can inhabit it."

i can't enter their world, which is for me as a 78—year—old, incomprehensible now. i mean, most of what my grandchildren say is complete gobbledygook. and anything i say is beyond their comprehension. so, here i am at last... a member of the falcons. is it a concern of yours that the theatre is failing to engage the younger audience? it's a fear, it's always a fear. if you look in the average audience, maybe because of money but they seem to be middle to late middle age. the sort of people i want in there... you can get the very young, you can catch them before they are ten but after that they are a lost tribe. i want that audience back.

we've now reached the age where we are considered mature enough to be possible carriers, and therefore a danger to men. how do you keep on challenging yourself? how do you make sure, you know, after all these plays you don't find yourself repeating past ideas? i think it's a terror.