hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the russian foreign minister has been speaking to the bbc. he says that relations between russia and the west are worse than during the cold war. the context for this exclusive interview was as western attacks on syrian positions, in response to an alleged chemical attack in douma, but mr lavrov doesn't believe that happen. there is no proof that on 7th of april chemical weapons were used in douma. in his first tv appearance since being sacked as fbi chief, james comey says president trump is a serial liar, who's morally unfit for office. and he said more besides. we will also hear from cape and he said more besides. we will also hearfrom cape canaveral in florida, because nasa has a new mission that will turn vibrations from stars into sound, and that in turn will help us understand space.

a number of developments after those western airstrikes in syria. first, this exclusive interview with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov, for the bbc‘s hardtalk programme with stephen sackur. here is mr lavrov on whether that alleged chemical attack actually happen. there is no proof that on 7th of april chemical weapons were used in douma, and you already... but there is proof. can you? emmanuel macron and the french have made it quite plain they have intercepts that showed syrian helicoptered movement over douma, they have pictures of gas canisters found that the site of

the attack, they also have the record of the syrian government over the last several years using chemical weapons. if you put all of that together, as far as the french, the americans, the british are concerned... i cannot be impolite to the heads of other state and of course i cannot be impolite to the head of my state, but you quoted the leaders of france and uk and the united states, and friendly speaking, all the evidence which they quoted was based on the media reports, and on social networks. theresa may says there is proof of a chemical attack. this is the prime minister in the house of commons earlier. open source accounts state that barrel bombs were used to deliver the chemicals. barrel bombs are usually delivered by helicopters. multiple open source reports and intelligence indicates that regime helicopters operated over douma on

the evening of 7th of april, shortly before reports emerged in social media of a chemical attack, and the syrian military officials coordinated what appears to be the use coordinated what appears to be the use of chlorine weapons. mr speaker, i'io use of chlorine weapons. mr speaker, no other group could have carried out this attack. the opposition does not operate helicopters or use barrel bombs. die oche doesn't even have a presence in douma. —— daesh doesn't even have a presence. this is the map of syria with damascus in the south—west, we have marked douma, not very far away from damascus itself. and inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog have not been able to get there. these are pictures from the headquarters of the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague. today there was an emergency meeting, one of those who attended was the uk ambassador to the netherlands, who claimed that russia and syria are delaying access to the site in douma. the us envoy to the opcw has says

russia may have tampered with evidence at douma. sergei lavrov denies that. here's more of him with stephen sackur. your ambassador to the united states said there would be consequences for the strikes that we saw. vladimir putin called it an illegal act of aggression, so the world wants to know, what is russia going to do now? that's a statement of fact, and consequences, certainly there would be consequences. we lose, basically, the last remnants of trust to our western friends, who prefer to operate on the basis of very weird logic. sergei lavrov does not make habit of giving blogger interviews to the western media, so early i spoke to stephen sackur, who are still in moscow, to ask why he thought lavrov had said yes to him

when the invitation was offered.” think the russians feel they have a very important message to get across, and it's a message, in a sense, driven by controlled anger and indignation. they feel that there is no legaljustification that could possibly justify there is no legaljustification that could possiblyjustify those missile attacks that we saw, what, some 48 hours and more ago. they called it a form of punishment without proof, and they believe it is indicative of and they believe it is indicative of a western approach, us—led western approach to the current crisis in syria, which is ignoring international norms. of course that is the sort of language the western leaders use too, aiming it at russia, so what we have at the moment is something of a diplomatic dialogue of the death. we have heard from the uk, the us and the un, all in different language acknowledging how bad relations between the west

and russia. what was sergei lavrov‘s assessment of that relationship? very bleak indeed. he says that the last rem na nts very bleak indeed. he says that the last remnants of trust between moscow and the leaders of the main western nations has been lost, and you know they have a very strong sense of history here in russia, and lavrov clearly is thinking in historical terms, and is reflecting on how relations today match up to those we saw during the worst moments of the cold war. this is what he had to say to me on that. well, i think it is worse. because during the cold war there were channels of communication, and there was no obsession with the russian phobia, which looks like genesis by sanctions. you think the situation todayis sanctions. you think the situation today is worse than the cold war? yes, because of the lack of channels

of communications, except very few. that makes it very dangerous.” hope, not only you, but other compatriots of yours, including the government, recognise this. stephen, even his critics would acknowledge that sergei lavrov is a formidable political operator, both in terms of russian politics and in terms of international politics, how did you find meeting him up close and quizzing him on the most important matters in the world? well, it's interesting to consider how lavrov seems today with the sergei lavrov i have met on several previous occasions. he was more angry today. usually, there's a little bit of humour in him. there was no humour whatsoever today. he frankly was not particularly friendly, there were very few pleasa ntries particularly friendly, there were very few pleasantries and niceties around our, session, which did last quite a long time, more than half an hour. and there was another thing i think is quite important, lavrov is a very durable, very experienced

diplomat, usually he by the diplomatic rules, but what he is doing right now and what the putin government generally is doing is putting out some ideas which frankly to western ayers and i is seem very far—fetched. for example, lavrov is saying that he believes british intelligence might well have been behind the poisoning of sergei skripal in salisbury. he says he believes the british may have stage—managed a sort of theatrical fa ke stage—managed a sort of theatrical fake chemical weapons attack in douma, so you get a picture of a russian government right now, which is full of anger, which is far from reaching out or being interested in finding some sort of compromise with the west, which is consistently upping the ante in this diplomatic and political crisis, and which for the moment there is no sign at all the moment there is no sign at all the russians want to bring down the temperature. since the attack, russia and syria has reported up to 70% of missiles fired at syrian targets were shot down. that is not what the americans they

are saying. america says all of the more than 100 missiles launched hit their targets. these are new pictures released by the us military today. they're from one of four navy ships that fired on syria's chemical weapons program. in all, the us says three key sites of the syrian government's "chemical weapons infrastructure" were targeted. american network cbs has been to the site of one of the targets — the barzeh research facility. this is the facility before the strike. and this is after. you can see for yourself the destruction. the him shinshar chemical weapons storage site was also targeted. a storage plant. you can see the damage done to it. and let me show you this. this is damascus today. hundreds of syrians rallying in support of president bashar al—assad. primarily young men. and everything

he is doing in the face of these attacks by the west. in the last few hours, we've heard the russian military will let inspectors from the opcw into douma on wednesday. i spoke to our chief international correspondent lyse doucet about that development a short time ago. well, there has been an announcement in the past few hours, saying that the opcw, the chemical inspectors will visit douma on wednesday, but thatis will visit douma on wednesday, but that is a lot longer than they expected. they have been here since saturday, they came with a promise that the authorities would give them unrestricted access. syrian officials here absolutely insist that the russians are not blocking the delegation, but they are talking about security conditions, things have to be cleared, and that is of course despite the fact that russian military experts visited the area

eight days ago, and a group of journalists was taken into the area, although they did not visit the site of the suspected chemical attack earlier today. back here in the uk... this was outside parliament today. we saw small protests against the military action. inside parliament, some opposition mps criticised theresa may for not consulting parliament before authorising the strikes. here's labour leaderjeremy corbyn. i believe that the action was legally questionable, and on saturday the united nations secretary general antenna guevara said as much colour reiterating that all countries —— antonio guterres. which states action must be in self defence, or be authorised by the united nations security council. the prime minister has assured us that

the attorney general had given clear legal advice approving the action. i hope the premise to will now publish this advice in full today. there have also been small protests in new york against american involvement. this was new york earlier, and these people are objecting to those american air strikes, and encouraging president trump not to repeat them. judging by this tweet following america's air strikes, it seems the president was very happy with them. the french president emmanuel macron painted a slightly different picture in an interview on sunday night. he took about those air strikes. he said he'd convinced donald trump to stay engaged in syria "for the long—term". the white house didn't waste much time in rebuffing that. donald trump has often said he wants

to get american troops out. today, perhaps unsurprisingly, mr macron has clarified his statement. translation: i am right in saying that the united states of america, because they decided on this intervention with us, fully realise that our responsibility went beyond the war against isas, and that it was also an humanitarian responsibility on the ground and long—term responsibility to create peace. much more on the bbc news website. michael cohen, the lawyer caught between president trump and porn actress stormy daniels, has been trying to prevent documents being used in a criminal investigation against him after a number of raids last week. here he is arriving at court, now cohen says a number of documents seized should be protected by attorney client privilege, and a federaljudge called him to testify about who his clients are, chief among them, donald trump. stormy daniels also

made an appearance at the same court today. it has been reported that the $130,000 cohen paid her to keep quiet about an alleged affair with trump, forms part of the criminal proceedings against cohen. nick bryant was at the court in new york for today's hearing. it looked like quite a scene. it looked like quite a scenem it looked like quite a scene. it was a media circus of barnum & bailey proportions, because it wasn't only michael cohen walking into the federal courthouse by me, it was stormy daniels as well, the pawn actress michael cohen paid $130,000 to on the eve of the 2016 election, allegedly to hash out about an allegedly to hash out about an alleged sexual encounter she had had with donald trump in 2006. what we

have heard in court was a little bit more sober, frankly. it was michael cohen's lawyers arguing that the federal prosecutors, who seized these materials in the raids this time last week, computer hard drive, boxes of documents, mobile phone, they should be allowed to review them so that attorney—client privilege is not infringed, and indeed the president's lawyers, another presidential legal team here today, has been making that case as well, that the president himself should get the chance to review these documents before federal prosecutors, but the federal prosecutors, but the federal prosecutors are saying the president is not above the law. he shouldn't have a special dispensation here. if this was an ordinary white—collar crime case it would be very open and shut, and they would be allowed to review the documents that they have seized. before we carry on talking, i want to ask you, in the new yorker, headline, michael cohen and the end stage of the pack trumpet

presidency. this is not the only article to make the case that what is happening with michael cohen is more significant than anything else. when i knew i would be speaking to you, i wanted to ask if you agree with that analysis, that what is going on behind you is more important than almost anything at the moment? what we have been led to believe is that the trump white house believes that this case poses more of a threat to donald trump than robert mueller‘s investigation, he of course is a special counsel who was appointed to look into russian collusion. there is this great fear at the white house about this new york investigation into michael cohen, because it is not just president trump's law tier lawyer, he has been his fixerfor an of years and president trump and his lawyers are very worried about what could have been seized in those raids last week, because his legal tea m raids last week, because his legal team here is making an incredibly strenuous case that he should be allowed to see them before federal

prosecutors. is very busy new york street, thanks to nick for being with us. stay with us on outside source — still to come... we will be seeing what is happening in florida at cape canaveral, as nasa tries to listen to vibrations in space to teach us about stars. we will learn all about that. the television presenter and entertainer ant mcpartlin says he is ashamed and mortified after pleading guilty today to driving while more than twice the legal alcohol limit. ant has been fined £86,000 and is banned from driving for 20 months. his mini struck two other cars at a roundabout in west london last month. after being charged, his publicist announced he would step down from the final two episodes of saturday night takeaway — leaving presenting partner declan donnelly

to host alone. ant gave this statement outside court. ijust want i just want to say i'm truly sorry for what happened. higher standards are expected of me, i expect them of myself. i let myself down, i let a lot of people down, for that i'm truly sorry. i would like to apologise to everybody involved in the crash, and i'm just thankful that nobody was seriously hurt. thank you very much, cheers. this is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the russian foreign minister has given an interview to the bbc. he says that relations between russia and the west are worse than during the cold war. some of the main stories from bbc

world service. officials at a maximum security prison in south carolina say at least seven inmates have been killed in disturbances. 17 others were injured. korean airlines has suspended its vice president, cho hyun—min, after she allegedly threw water at an advertising agency executive, prompting a police investigation. she's the younger sister of the another korean airlines executive, who was jailed in a different incident you may remember — it became known as the nut rage scandal. that's on bbc world service radio. this is the earth's surface filmed from space — and this is being heavily watched on the bbc news app. you can see traffic moving here in puerto anto—fagasta in chile. a british company took the images with a satellite that slowly moves over its targets. this is the runway at dubai airport. netflix is releasing its quarterly results. investors aren't just interested in profit — they're interested in subscribers. joe millerjoins us from new york.

i guess, joe, subscribers tell us more perhaps about the long—term prospects of netflix than immediate profit now? absolutely, both profit and subscribers are doing very, very well for netflix at the moment. it has come as a great relief for wall street, because other text docs, including facebook, amazon, google, they are all under pressure, and here you have netflix, whose shares have risen 60% this year, and these first quarterly numbers have dropped and it has beaten expectations. netflix shares up another 7% in after—hours trading, as the company beat any expectations on the number of subscribers it has added in the last three months. it has added about 7,500,000 subscribers about a million more than expected and that is keen for incest —— for investors.

this stock that was already stratospheric will help lift the tech market, which has really been in the doldrums recently. you already made a comparison between america and the rest of the world, to what degree is netflix managing to what degree is netflix managing to become a truly global operation? ina very to become a truly global operation? in a very big way, actually. we are looking at 128 or so million subscribers around the world, the vast majority of those are still in the us, but netflix has put billions of dollars into international titles in the last year or so, titles in other languages and also translating a lot of big hits, like the queen, the crown rather, and others, into various different languages. it is available in many different languages, both in terms of the subtitles and dublin, and that appears to have paid off, with millions of subscribers signing up overseas, and it is relieved that growth that investors are watching, because netflix, even though it faces competition from amazon and from google and others, who are all interested in making their own

content these days, it is still leading the pack, but it has basically saturated the market in america. so those international growth numbers are all important, the fact they have exceeded expectations today is fantastic news for netflix. it is really going to be the stock to watch this year. thank you very much, joe, live in new york. the world's biggest advertising agency wpp saw its shares plunge by more than 6% all because its boss sir martin sorrell is stepping down. he was facing allegations of personal misconduct. one analyst says some people think he'd been at the helm for too long. well, there have been some questions about that. he is 73, there are also questions over what would happen if and when he stepped down, whether it would be at the time of his choosing or not. he has attracted some bad press for the company recently,

owing to the size of his pay packet, but looking at what he has built up at wpp, which is to be known as wire and plastic products, since he took overin and plastic products, since he took over in 1985, his track record has generally been excellent, the shares have travelled in the last ten years alone, so i am not sure there was that much pressure from big shoulders for him to go even after the disagreement over his pay packet. equally he may have just decided it was time, the company has had a very tough 12 months, share price has come under pressure, and there is questions over where media agencies fit in in a world where lots of companies, clearly not wetherspoon‘s, are going directly to social media to attract new customers. that is a reference to the fact that wetherspoon‘s, a chain of pubs in the uk, has pulled itself of pubs in the uk, has pulled itself of all of social media, facebook instagram, the lot, it has gone. report now on how office design affects workers productivity and creativity. leisha santorelli has taken one expert on a tour of the bbc‘s singapore bureau. it is great to see you have an open

plan office, everybody can communicate, but of course it can make things a bit noisy and create a bit more stress. you have these islands that people can talk face—to—face, but they are all the same. you don't have the flexibility that you sometimes need, but you do have a fantastic view. let's take a look at some of the other offices you have worked on for a really big companies, and grab a coffee. what have you done here? this is when we helped vodafone move their office from london to dublin. we had to get everybody comfortable, everybody ready to start a new adventure. but this doesn't look like the offices ofa this doesn't look like the offices of a major telco. exactly. what we wa nted of a major telco. exactly. what we wanted to do is we wanted to make it feel like home, so we created a kitchen at the centre, and then we

created all the different experiences around it. so ifi created all the different experiences around it. so if i were to ta ke experiences around it. so if i were to take one design suggestion and bring it to my boss, watching it be? i thinkjust a really creative space that you can open yourselves, that you can customise. because this is where you spend so much of your time, andi where you spend so much of your time, and i think that will really give everybody a boost when they are in the office. great, i'll ask the boss. let me remind you of the lead story, concerning those western air strikes on syrian targets. the russian foreign minister has been speaking to the bbc. he says he doesn't believe there was a chemical attack in douma near to damascus, despite the fact that ten downing st is saying on the significant body of information, it is clear that such an attack did happen. those two parts of the world a long way apart at the moment, and i will be back in a couple of minutes. thanks forjoining me. ijust want

to update you on a number of world stories that have caught my in recent hours, first the stars of the weekend just gone, in the new york area 27 degrees, way above what we would expect at the time of year, and on the very same parallel, the western side of the lakes, minnesota, record amounts of snowfall for april. if you didn't see an awful lot of snow there was probably just enough in see an awful lot of snow there was probablyjust enough in the way of freezing rain to coat not only shrubs but also power lines and many thousands were without power for quite some time. then things really rapidly changed, because the cold air moved through new york, they lost about 20 degrees or so come sunday, and they are not out of the woods just yet because that area of low pressure has brought all of those problems, very wet, very windy, very wintry. it is all still there to be had. the temperatures as we move into tuesday, no better in montreal, and into the new york area, looking at around four or so. there is a bit of a lull or of

proceedings, but that is all it is, the skies will be clear on tuesday, but go further back towards the rockies, and here comes another burst of moisture rolling across the plains, and working into that cold regime, such that we could do it all over again as we go into the verbal pa rt over again as we go into the verbal part of the week. so if you are heading towards new york, don't expect too much in the short—term, but we get back to the seasonal norms as we move towards the tail end of the week and the wind dies away as well. the wind is a real issue with regard to these fires in the area. i am sure you have seen the area. i am sure you have seen the footage by now, it all comes off the footage by now, it all comes off the back of record—breaking temp just through the course of the autumn widely through australia, in excess of 40 degrees, and comparisons are being made with the heatwaves in 1986 and 2005. i suspect i will not be the only one watching the forecast in the sydney area, little in the way of rainfall come wednesday, and still quite a noticeable breeze. it is the other face of autumn that has been affecting the islands of new zealand, if you have relatives

there, because it is wet and windy and not overly warm. there have been some severe weather warnings, particularly the south island. 24 degrees in sydney by the verbal part of the week, closer to what we would expect. and closer to the values will find in quite a swathe of central europe as we get into the middle of this week. 23, 24, 25 degrees, all very acceptable, and it looks as though with high—pressure beginning to dominate as we get into tuesday, wednesday and thursday, that that could be the mechanism to withdraw some of that continental heat ever closer to the british isles. yes there is a front not1 million miles away from the north and west, as we move from wednesday into thursday, you will notice just how those colours begin to deepen, somewhere come thursday in the south—east could well see 26 degrees. welcome to bbc news. these are the main stories we're covering. this interview took place just over

a day after those western strikes on syria, they were prompted by the alleged chemical attack but he's doubted that happened. there is no proof that on the 7th of april, chemical weapons were used. james comey gave his first tv interview since being sacked as fbi chief. james comey says president trump is a serial liar who's morally unfit for office. every day outside source features bbc journalists working in over 30 languages. your questions are always welcome. #bbcos is the hashtag. we knew he would, james comey, former fbi director,

went onto us tv duly detonated a range of claims about donald trump. here's some of his interview with abc's george stephanopoulos. i don't think he's medically unfit to be president. i think he's morally unfit to be president. white lives matter! a person who sees moral equivalence in charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the american people believe it, that person is not fit to be president of the united states on moral grounds, a president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are the core of this country. the most important being truth. this president is not able to do that, he's morally unfit to be president. no possibility of this passing without a tweet. and they duly came forth from the president. one read... tweet: @realdonaldtrump "slippery james comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack he is not smart!), will go down as the worst fbi director in history, by far!".

the republican party's national committee released a statement saying: "james comey‘s publicity tour reaffirms that his true higher loyalty is to himself." "the only thing worse than comey‘s history of misconduct is his willingness to say anything to sell books." katty kay has been following all this from washington for us. here's her analysis. full disclosure i have not read this cover to cover, i've had an speed read ofjim comey‘s book. there are no massive revelations in it in terms of objection of justice or collusion with the russians. he does not really touch the muller probe. this is more really of a personal attack against donald trump as you heard in that clip he does not have a lot of time for he does not think he's morally fit to be office, he does talk about the fact that there could be some kind of evidence around obstruction of justice but he doesn't really spell that out and it's, i spoke to one senior fbi, former fbi official

today who said the tone of this book is sort of vindictive. it's very personal and maybe jim comey would have done himself some more favours if he had made it all a little bit more professional and a little bit less personal. all right before we keep talking about the interview let's play a little bit more of it. stay with us. here is some more of that abc interview. what is the remedy, should donald trump be impeached? impeachment is a question of law and fact and politics. you're a citizen, you have a judgement. but i'll give you a strange answer, i hope not. because i think impeaching and removing donald trump from office would let the american people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that i believe they are duty bound to do directly. people in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values. and so impeachment in a way would short—circuit that. you may not want impeachment, but he's certainly getting political isn't he? yes, he's talking about what might happen to the president and presuming i guess that the democrats might win the midterm elections because that is the only way that

impeachment is going to happen. impeachment is a political process, it's not a legal process in this country. it would be because the house of representatives decides to launch impeachment hearings against this president and unless there are democrats in the house that is not going to happen so he's talking about. the other thing he's talking about is hillary clinton's election and he did say i really hope that the letter i released ten days before the election saying that we were still investigating her i hope that that did not sway the election, i would do it again and he revealed the fact that both of his daughters and his wife actually voted for hillary clinton and he was trying to kind of justify himself. it was an odd interview because in some ways i think a lot of people around the world would listen to him and say yeah, we believe whatjim comey is saying but in other ways it was so personal, so vindictive against the president he's slightly undermined his own credibility. you can see them on beyond 100 days a couple of hours after this.

in the past hour, a turkish court ruled that an american pastor, andrew brunson, will remain injail pending a trial over alleged links to a group accused of orchestrating a failed 2016 military coup in turkey. a failed 2016 military he is accused of aiding a group led by fethullah gulen, an exiled muslim preacher who turkish authorities allege was behind the attempted coup. brunson and the american government say that the charges are baseless. it is one of many subjects that frayed relations between the nato allies turkey and the us. seref is formerly of our turkish service. he's been following the story for bbc world news. not really a surprise that this man is staying in prison? no surprise at all. the failed coup of 2016 brought up all. the failed coup of 2016 brought up some very patriotic feelings in turkey and we had known that from previous trials taking place around

us previous trials taking place around us this alleged coup attempt at it, not very long time. today the court ruled he will stay in jail which was to be expected because the judiciary system of turkey moves at a more slow—paced. system of turkey moves at a more slow-paced. what is he specifically of doing? , heat, the charges are espionage and attempting to overthrow the government and he's also charged with aiding a terrorist organisation. 30 movies, they said he was a part of this organisation as you mentioned in the us which he's a preacher and turkey believes he's a preacher and turkey believes he was behind this attempted coup. does he have any connection with him? he does not, he says he's not a member of the organisation and he never spoke to him. of course, this is perhaps a glimpse into how the relationship between turkey and the us is going at the moment. he's in pennsylvania and turkey has

requested his extradition. and the us is saying there's no evidence for him to be extradited and enter the president of turkey said there are some followers of that guy in pennsylvania. the us is saying return the pastor and you have a pastor return him, we will return your pastor. and they say we should not be mixing and turkey has hinted ata not be mixing and turkey has hinted at a possible swap with the us has rejected this. i have the impression that on this the americans and the turks of almost agree to disagree and that they don't agree on this issue but they have to work with each other on other issues like syria. yes they do, but that has also been a source of friction. turkey believes that the kurdish military and the white bg turkey believes that the kurdish military and the white b6 in the north of syria linked to the pkk which has been fighting for independence from turkey since the 905. the us supports the white bg because the white bg 905. the us supports the white bg because the white b6 is fighting islamic state. it's a mixed picture.

but turkey believes there for the us is actually indirectly helping the kurds which is again causing a bit ofa kurds which is again causing a bit of a problem between these two nato allies. i want to ask you about the big group trials that we have covered on all sides source where whole groups of men are going on trial together accused of being involved in the cool, where have they gone to? they are still continuing as he said under the turkish judiciary system and it works at a slow pace and not to mention what you're talking about thousands of people who were charged as being behind this alleged coup attempt of 2016. so it'll take a while for them to go to a judicial process. thank you very much indeed. those of you who speak turkish you can get news, bbc turkish .com and if you speak english there's lots of news online for you as well. you can get full coverage of the situation in turkey also how the turkish political situation fits into the situation in turkey and syria which is important that you can see the lead story on the bbc website at the

moment the argument and parliament earlier over the legality of those strikes carried out by the royal air force but also by the french and by the americans we saw the opposition leaderjeremy corbyn say you were? around the legality of the prime minister decision to authorise those attacks however the prime minister says no we have the correct legal advice and we were on sound footing. you can get all of that analysis on bbc .com/ news. british and american officials says hackers linked to the russian government have launched a new cyber attack on the infrastructure which moves traffic around the internet. they released this, what's called a "technical alert", drawing private companies' attention to the measures they need to take to protect themselves. the white house says hackers have gained a level of access which they could use to launch destructive attacks, like switching off the electricity grid in target countries.

dave lee has more from san francisco. i was going to give you a calm before the storm but i think this storm is rolling into san francisco right now. you don't even have to imagine it. this is both the uk and the us they are saying they think russia is preparing for a major, major cyber attack. possibly in retaliation for some of the things that happen happening politically at the moment. the way they say they have been doing is by almost prepping various bits of critical network infrastructure, the parts that control much of the internet and get traffic everywhere, they say russians have been able to get into some of those systems and be ready should they need to utilise that access for nefarious purposes. that could be anything from attacks on infrastructure which is something russia has done in the ukraine or it could be simply listening in on communications, gathering data with it's about companies and their intellectual property or of course

more sensitive data that may be communicated. all in all, the uk and the us, what they are saying is be prepared for something like this to happen because often these weaknesses come from poorly updated hardware so companies should be making sure they do that to prevent this being a significant problem. more now on that bbc interview with russia's foreign minister. sergei lavrov‘s also talked about the salisbury poisoning. you may remember that last week web the international chemical weapons watchdog agreed with the uk's assessment of the nerve agent that was used, though it didn't name it as novichok, as the uk has done. off the back of that report, its foreign secretary said quote: "there can be no doubt what was used." "there remains no alternative explanation about who was responsible — only russia has the means, motive and record." mr lavrov had something to say about that.

this chemical substance indeed was invented in the zaani union then one of the inventors led to the united states and made the bombing of public and if you want to check before raising the issue, please do so, the united states patented this formula and it was formerly taken by the united states special services the united states special services the name i don't remember but it very seriously damages the person, it kills him or her but it operates very fast and the sample ta ken her but it operates very fast and the sample taken two weeks after the event cannot buy our scientists to

contain very high concentrations. the uk prime minister also referenced the salisbury attack in her speech today about the strikes on syria. while of a much lower magnitude, of the nerve agent —— agent as part of a pattern of disregard for the global norms of chemical weapons. so while the action was taken to alleviate humanitarian suffering in syria, by degrading the regime chemical weapons capability and deterring its use of these weapons, it will also send a clear message to anyone who believes they can use chemical weapons with impunity. we cannot go back to a world where the use of chemical weapons becomes normalised. an undercover investigation for the bbc has revealed that around 150,000 north korean labourers are being sent abroad in a modern day slavery programme, earning over £1 billion for their government in pyongyang. the investigation found that these people are employed by secret gangs in neighbouring china, in the port city of vladivostok in russia,

and also in a city called szczecin, in poland. here's some of the investigation. 150,000 workers sent abroad to raise billions for the regime. hidden cameras capture korean work gangs in china, russia and even in europe. their earnings ploughed into north korea's nuclear weapons. anybody who is working

doesn't have access to the salary, has their travel documents taken away, are enslaved. according to a former north korean diplomat who spoke to the bbc, this what is done with the money that's sent back. next this is remco breuker who's a dutch expert on north korea and who contributed to the documentary. thank you forjoining us, let's talk

about the example of poland first of all, some people may be surprised to notice google won him praise and sites without anyone on it. yes, it's quite a surprise i guess but then again north korean workers have been employed for ten, 15 years at least so they have to work in plain sight and for quite sometime. and is what's happening of concern to the polish authorities or the eu authorities now that it's been brought to their attention? by now i imagine it is a concern to both the polish and the eu authorities but i'm afraid to say that both parties have been very slow in picking this up have been very slow in picking this up and doing something about the human rights that were perpetrated against these north korean workers. to what degree can the experience of the north koreans in china or russia or in poland be controlled by people in pyongyang? two a surprising

degree. these are people who are not sent out by themselves, they are sent out by themselves, they are sent out by groups. they have group leaders and security with them and most importantly they usually leave behind theirfamilies most importantly they usually leave behind their families in most importantly they usually leave behind theirfamilies in north korea. it's one of the conditions to be sent abroad. so the control over these people is quite firm. and there are obvious benefits for kim jong—un with hard currency flowing back into north korea. are there diplomatic or political benefits as well? yes there are. there are definitely inform of the dramatic benefits because this is when north korea does diplomacy these days. they don't use their embassies and their diplomats they use these informal sometimes almost invisible financial networks to keep in touch with other countries so in that sense there are many benefits associated to what amounts to

contemporary slavery. and in the context of the eu, what could be done immediately to stop this happening? well, much could have been done earlier but never was u nfortu nately been done earlier but never was unfortunately what should happen now i think is first and foremost offer a place to north korean workers who have been exploited here to stay in the eu, get theirfamilies over here and then stopped the practise of exploiting more people. that is what should happen first. thank you very much indeed. you can see that entire investigation for the bbc panorama programme. the british government has admitted there have terrible mistakes in the treatment of migrants who've been threatened with deportation after decades in the uk. this involves members of the so called windrush generation — that took its name from the empire windrush — one of several boats that brought migrants to the uk in the late 405 and 505.

the issue at the moment primarily affects migrants who came from countries like barbados in the eastern carribean and further west jamaica, countries which were both once part of the british empire. this is archive footage from the time. the people at the centre of this story arrived with their parents when they were children. and they were never given any proper documentation to prove they had the right to remain in the country — which they did and which they do. this is the experience of one of them who came to the uk aged eight. last year he was threatened with deportation, then detained by the british authorities for more than two weeks. it was a shock because i always thought that i was legal, i was british, i've been here from i'm 8, i didn't give it another thought because i just thought they were mixing me up, a nyway u nfortu nately they were mixing me up, it was me they were after and it was me they were looking at. today we heard from the british home secretary. i am concerned that the home office is becoming too concerned with

policy and strategy and sometimes lose sight of the individual. and this is about individuals. the government has now set up a task force, and has promised that no—one with the right to remain will be asked to leave. adina cambell has been leading the bbc‘s coverage of this, i spoke to her earlier. it's been a massive change at government level because we saw some really heated debate earlier today with the urgent question saying this is national shame, this has been a subject which has been demanding pressure for weeks and weeks and we have heard some really moving stories from people who say they've been denied access to nhs health care for example, they've had to leave work because they have not had the right paperwork to prove their legal status but don't forget these are people who classed themselves as british. their children off this wind rush

generation, these are people who came over in the late 19405 on empire wind rush, they were given the right to remain here in the uk because they were contributing to the economy over here and all of a sudden they find themselves having to find paperwork or at least prove that they are legally entitled to be in the uk and it's just been harrowing some of the stories we have heard. there's an list of new measures the government will be bringing in, which would you pick out as being more significant? the key point here i think many are the home office saying they are going to set upa home office saying they are going to set up a dedicated task force so that's a dedicated team to help deal with those affected so anyone for example who's been here in the uk for a long time they have worked here, they have brought their families here, they have been to school or college here for example. these are people who can contact the home office and get the access to the support they need. and the government have said they are going

to win some of the legal fields because it can be costly for people having to get the right paperwork. it can cost thousands and thousands of pounds of the home office say they are now nipping this in the pot and they are going to take action immediately but some people have said this has been far too slow and they should have happened months ago. has anyone been deported? that is not quite clear at this stage. we have pared some anecdotal stories of people have been sent back but we can be 100% clear at this stage but anthony brian who featured in our report earlier today he was hours away from being deported, he had been living here in the uk for more than 50 years, he arrived from jamaica at the age of eight and a few months ago was told he could have been on his way back home to jamaica so we have heard some stories of people certainly being detained in detention centres across the uk and facing deportation but he can't be quite clear if those people

have been deported at this stage.” think it's worth emphasising for the people watching outside of the uk that while integration is hot issue is not an issue concerning the people who have got caught up in the story. no, because they they are british. they have lived here for decades, they have their families here, they have worked here, and to suddenly be told that work is potentially going to let you go after yea rs of potentially going to let you go after years of employment were to be told that you can't have access to health care, there's one man i spoke to who has been here for at least 40 yea rs, to who has been here for at least 40 years, he had an operation for prostate cancer and he needs radiotherapy and is going to cost them more than £50,000 because he doesn't have the paperwork to prove that he is legally entitled to be here in the uk. so, that's affecting him ona here in the uk. so, that's affecting him on a very personal level. her reports with the lead story on the big bulletins here in the uk on the

6pm news and the news at ten as well. much more information online if you would like it, likely, this isa if you would like it, likely, this is a story we're going to come to today but nasa is learning about stars by turning vibrations that can pick up coming from the stars into sounds. it's all connected to our launch that was supposed to be happening today but space x postpone the planned monday launch of nasa's planet hunting satellite sighting guidance and navigation control glitch. this is a really interesting story. the project is going to go ahead if not scheduled for wednesday so we will come back to a hopefully that will get off the ground then. thank you for watching. goodbye. so, we have been promising you warm weather for days now and the forecast remains unchanged, we are infora forecast remains unchanged, we are in for a very warm spell of weather, potentially the warmer since the end of august last year. how warm would

it get? temperatures could get a 26 in london, in the midlands 25 degrees, cardiff around 20 and even across northern parts of the country 20 degrees as well. in the short term there is admittedly a bit of a blip in the weather on the way, this isa blip in the weather on the way, this is a weather front which has been approaching us in the last day or so it's already shot —— shouted northern ireland with crowd and that comes also with some rain. to the early hours of tuesday rain spitting into some western and northwestern parts of the country and on top of that some wins really blustery conditions around those posts, further ease it will be drier, dry weather for statement tuesday morning. here's the weather map on tuesday, that blip in the weather here is the area of high pressure the settled weather. still have to wait for that little bit. first we have to get through this weather front on tuesday which will bring some rain from parts of scotland delayed this should possibly into wales and the southwest more than anything it's going to be an error of cloud to the south of that we

could see temperatures of around 15 to 19 degrees. 19 in london and in norwich. middle parts of the week, the jet stream topples right over us when we see these ridges, the struts and then reaches over us, that means that air will be building in from the south and writing around us area of high pressure and warmth being drawn out of friends and germany. watch those, straight out of france, there still is another blip on wednesday for the western isles and will he eventually that sony —— sunny weather, and basking in the sunshine, 23 in london, 18 for newcastle and remember the sun is so already this time of year we will burn if you are out for any lengthy period of time. this is ace, kick of the middle parts of the week this is an area of high pressure here you can see drawing i've warmth out of the continent in our direction so i think thursday is going to be the hottest day for some of us. the funniest day as well if those temperature speak at 20, 26 in

london. 19 in newcastle. belfast also a very decent 17 degrees the way. on friday we still have an air of high pressure here but there is a bit of change in the wind direction, this weather front will be pushing it went off the atlantic and it will be affecting some western and northern parts of the uk so there will be a cooling trend as we head towards the end of the week you see those greens their temperatures 11 degrees and around the 205 throughout the middle in london which is still way above the average for that time of the year. the weekend is looking good. thejet strea m weekend is looking good. thejet stream is mostly north of us so still drawing in warmth out of the continent and once again it will be a very pleasant weekend. probably slightly less for media that's a bit more crowd as indicated there was a symbol that is just a shower chance. early next week it looks like the jet stream will be coming right at us jet stream will be coming right at us and the gesture and will also be carrying areas of low pressure and

zooming and —— just to show these cooler air coming zooming and —— just to show these cooleraircoming in and zooming and —— just to show these cooler air coming in and after this warm spell of whether it will not last very long there is cooler weather on the way next week. goodbye. threatened with deportation. it involves thousands of people who came to britain between the 19405 and the 19705 with no official documents. ministers now say they're owed an apology. frankly, some of the way that they have been treated has been wrong, has been appalling, and i am sorry. this is a day of national shame! and it has come about because of a hostile environment policy that was begun under her prime minister! and we talk to some of those affected by changes introduced when theresa may was home secretary. i just thought they were mixing me up. anyway, unfortunately, they weren't mixing me up, it was me they were after, and it was me that they were locking up. we'll have the latest on the official response,

which includes setting up a new taskforce