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this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11: a member of the taliban is convicted of plotting a knife attack on mps and police outside the houses of parliament. british motor manufacturers express their alarm about the brexit process, as the government insists it is listening to their concerns. the us supreme court upholds donald trump's travel ban on people from a number of muslim majority countries. prince william has been visiting israel. he paid his respects at the world holocaust remembrance centre injerusalem. i know that i share a desire with all of you and all of your neighbours for a just and lasting peace. also coming up — the sun has got its hat, and so should you. as uk temperatures exceed 30 degrees for the first time this year, the met office issues a yellow health warning because of heatwave conditions lasting until thursday evening. lionel messi calexico, lionel messi
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scores! —— collects. and lionel messi puts argentina i—o up in the team's must—win match against nigeria. hello, a very good evening to you. welcome to bbc news. a man from north london who was arrested armed with knives has been found guilty of planning an attack on politicians and police. khalid ali, who was 28, was detained last year after his mother called police to report that she had found knives in his bedroom. he had recently returned to the uk from afghanistan and he told police he had fought british troops and designated hundreds of bombs there. on the floor! get on the floor! you got him? the moment when armed officers
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stopped an al-qaeda supporter launching a knife attack on whitehall. do you have anything on you that may hurt anyone else? it was april last year, barely a month after the traumatic westminster bridge attack. another knife... third knife. khalid ali was carrying three brand—new knives, that he'd bought just two hours earlier. born in saudi arabia to a somali father and an ethiopian mother, he grew up in north london, and first came to the security services‘ attention on an aid convoy to gaza in 2010. taking it to the next level. you feel me? 0ne love. that's the real thing about this kind of mission... kieran turner helped organise the convoy and remembers ali well. at that point i thought, nice young man. this is going to be one of the people that's fun to travel with. he was... you know, he had a sense of humour. i remember him because he always smiled. but there were die—hard extremists on the convoy, such as thomas evans,
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who died fighting in kenya, and within a few months khalid ali was in afghanistan, —— where hejoined al-qaeda. the americans found his fingerprints on these detonators and remote controls. in police interviews, he admitted setting off hundreds of bombs himself. in 2016, khalid ali suddenly returned to heathrow, where his fingerprints were taken. these matched prints kept by the fbi at a huge warehouse of improvised bombs from war zones. now being kept under surveillance, he was seen near downing street last march and outside mi6 last april. his mother later warning police she had found knives in his room. but that very same day, he bought three more knives and headed to westminster, dropping his phone in the river thames and his tube ticket in a rubbish bin. having dumped all the evidence and now carrying just an empty backpack and three knives, khalid ali headed towards whitehall
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and downing street. he was armed and ready. but by this point, so were the police. that's when we decided to act. so up until that time, we were managing the risk. we were using various different techniques to manage that risk, but he was arrested at the appropriate time using armed police officers. shouting the al-qaeda bomb maker had been stopped just 200 metres from downing street. detectives believe he's planned to stab a police officer or an mp. daniel sandford, bbc news, whitehall. the prime minister has come under more pressure today from business leaders — this time from the british motor industry, which warned that its concerns over the brexit process were not being addressed. the latest figures suggest levels of investment in the motor industry have fallen sharply. the society of motor manufacturers and traders said investment — in new models and factory improvements — was nearly £650 million in the first six months of last year.
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whereas, for the same period this year, investment was only around £350 million. a slump of about 50%. ministers say that securing a good deal for the motor industry with the best possible access to european markets is one of the biggest goals in the brexit negotiations — our economics editor kamal ahmed explains. he was hoping for a good day at the office — telling the car industry gathered in london the government was committed to a deal with the eu which would be positive for business. but when it came to questions for the transport secretary, the unhappiness of the audience was clear. see the man circled with the white hair? that'sjohn neill, the boss of unipart — one of britain's biggest car parts suppliers. we get mixed messages from the cabinet. interesting comment from one cabinet minister, that business can f off, which is not going to be very well received in global boardrooms. when will we get an absolutely unambiguous and consistent message from the cabinet, that says
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you are determined and committed to achieve frictionless trade and fast trade through the borders? every single member of the cabinet would say they want frictionless trade with the european union. we believe it's in their interests, we believe it's in our interests, we believe it's in our mutual interest that that should be the case. the "f off"john neill was referring to was supposedly said by this man, borisjohnson. today he was asked in parliament, was that really his attitude to business? i don't think anybody could doubt the passionate support of this government for business, and it may be — it may be that from time to time i have expressed scepticism about some of the views of those who profess to speak up for business. this is all about the biggest car—makers in britain, which employ tens of thousands of people. i asked the head of bmw if border costs did increase, would prices rise for consumers? that's a potential risk. something that we'd like to avoid,
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because this is a competitive market. our customers have expectations as to the value in their car. they see innovation and technology as having a value. i can tell you, i've never heard of one that says there's a value in customs. that's something that they're probably not prepared to pay for. the man who has spoken to each of the japanese car giants in the uk raised similar concerns. the access to the european market is one of the most important motivations for japanese industry investing in the uk. now, if that is endangered, that will have to come into their calculation. but we do not know that for certain today, and that's what we call uncertainty. car—makers want smooth production, but they know tensions are growing between many of them and the government. brexit is at its core, and to that there is no imminent solution. kamal ahmed, bbc news. two men have been killed and i2
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other people injured, in a crash between a double—decker bus and a lorry in cambridgeshire. police say five of those caught up in the accident on the a47 have serious injuries. 0ur correspondentjo black reports. just after 7:30am this morning, the emergency services were called to this — a terrible crash between a ali—tonne lorry and a double—decker bus on the busy a47 near guyhirn in cambridgeshire. two men, the bus driver, in his 50s, from norfolk, and a passenger, a man in his 70s from northamptonshire, both died at the scene. 12 others who were also on the bus were wounded, some of them seriously. when we're talking about an hgv, articulated lorry, and a double—decker bus, two very, very big vehicles on the road there, possibly the biggest vehicles on the road. for me, i'm astounded there wasn't more casualties. the crash, which involved a bretts
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lorry, happened just behind me, near the firm's distribution centre. it's thought the bus collided into the side of the hgvjust as it was pulling out of the company's yard. in a statement, the bus company first eastern counties said they were shocked and saddened by what's happened. investigations into why this happened are now under way and in the meantime, police are appealing for witnesses and any drivers who may have dashcam footage of the incident. jo black, bbc news. now, it's been the hottest day of the year so far, and as temperatures continue to rise, the met office has issued a health alert. a fire has devastated parts of saddleworth moor in the north—west of england. this evening, people have been evacuated from their homes due to the spreading moorland fire. police have also warned
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about open—water swimming, after a man drowned and a child is still missing. 0ur correspondent danny savage has the latest. 0n the pennine moors east of manchester, a huge area of upland is on fire. this smoke can be seen for miles, it's been burning since sunday. gamekeepers, farmers, and firefighters are trying to put out the blaze. we've never seen nowt like it. last night, 20, 30 foot flames coming straight towards us. we nearly had it, but it's back. as a result, visibility and air quality has deteriorated in surrounding villages and towns. while most of britain is basking under blue skies, large parts of greater manchester are shrouded in smoke. further south in stoke—on—trent, the search has continued for a missing boy at westport lake. police say ryan evans disappeared after he got into difficulty. two other boys managed to get to safety. as temperatures soared today, gritters were deployed in dorset
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to stop roads from melting. but in our seaside resorts, like here in blackpool, the conditions couldn't be better. usually down south you get all the hot weather, but this time blackpool has got it and it's absolutely fantastic for the northwest. for the hottest weather, west is best over the next few days as the heatwave continues. danny savage, bbc news, blackpool. then let mejust then let me just update you now. following that report, the number of people have now been evacuated from their homes close to the fire on saddleworth. the fire which originally broke out on sunday, reignited because of the heat. residents are being urged to keep
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doors and windows closed where there is any visible smoke. italy has reached a deal with malta to end the ordeal of a rescue ship stranded for nearly a week with more than 230 migrants on board. the lifeline is one of several ships rescuing migrants from the mediterranean that had been rejected from ports on the european mainland, as tensions over migration reach new levels. italy's interior minister's accused the charity—run ships of operating a taxi service for migrants, as our correspondent gavin lee reports now from another charity ship, the aquarius. this has been life on board the lifeline for six days. more than 200 migrants who left libyan shores saved by the charity run rescue ship and now stranded. this evening, malta said it might accept them, but only if other eu countries agree to take some of the migrants on board. these migrants disembarking from a mersk merchant ship in sicily this morning.
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the country's deputy prime minister, matteo salvini, says he's putting an end to ngo ships docking. translation: the foreign ngos with foreign personnel, foreign flags, foreign finance, will never again dock in italian ports. i've said it and i will repeat it easily. the aquarius has returned to search and rescue operations off the libyan coast a week after being refused entry to italy and malta when it was instead forced to take 630 migrants on a four day journey to spain. the rescue team has been at sea off the coast of libya for two days and in that time, there have been ten migrant boats in trouble. all of them intercepted by the libyan coastguard and taken into detention centres in libya. the crew claim italy has breached international maritime law by not involving them or other ngos in rescue missions. to be here, i want assistance
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to save lives and obstructed as we are now, it's extremely difficult. we can't turn our back to people in distress. tonight, the aquarius crew is heading out of libyan waters on the way to marseille for fuel. after saving 30,000 lives in three years, the future of these rescue missions is uncertain. gavin lee, bbc news, on board the aquarius. a conservative treasury minister has hit out at her cabinet colleagues for demanding extra money for their government departments. the chief secretary to the treasury, liz truss was speaking at an event at the london school of economics. at westminster is our political correspondent iain watson, who was listening to liz truss's speech. it was quite interesting what we saw last week. that is right, we seem to have had briefings in the press and calls from other public departments
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to get funding to the nhs. this is too much, she was making it very clear that the nhs was dealt with outside of the main spending review and people were angling for more cash. more recently of course, it was reported that gavin williams, the defence secretary, was calling for more. cross—party mps have done the same. in effect, she was lapping anybody else who thought that they we re anybody else who thought that they were going to get special treatment stop loop the nhs is a special case, you know this has been settled very extraordinarily outside a spending review because of the specific issues that the nhs face, the rising need for services and for that money. but we are very clear that it isa i—off money. but we are very clear that it is a i—off and that overall, we need to maintain ourfiscal is a i—off and that overall, we need to maintain our fiscal rules. is a i—off and that overall, we need to maintain ourfiscal rules. we need to ensure that we are keeping tax as low as possible for
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taxpayers. so my point of my collea g u es taxpayers. so my point of my colleagues is that any additional spending, andi colleagues is that any additional spending, and i do think there is huge value in looking at existing spending and seeing how we could do it better, any additional spending will necessarily result in additional taxation, always likely to lead to additional taxation and we should be honest when we are having that discussion. in some ways, i suppose this is a sort of traditional message from the chief secretary, but kind that the tone of some of these comments result of the back candid remarks about fellow cabinet ministers seem to be becoming more and more public from. george freeman was on the radio today, saying that he is fed up with this. it seems to have just been abandoned in full and cabinet ministers are saying things about each other. in the speech that liz
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truss gave, as each other. in the speech that liz ti’uss gave, as you each other. in the speech that liz truss gave, as you just said, i was there, she sent a message to her cabinet colleagues and she responded, effectively saying to them if you are asking for more money, taxes will go up but i am telling you that taxes have to stay low. so she is almost having that debate in public, what was interesting is that in a speech she described herself as a chief disruptor. deregulation, described herself as a chief disru ptor. deregulation, recreating the entrepreneurial spirit in britain and so on, and what you want to see some discipline amongst collea g u es to see some discipline amongst colleagues when it came to spending, she did not exercise much discipline when it came to quite frankly slapping off one of her colleagues. in the speech, she was critical of the government for perhaps being a little bit too nannying, being too keen to regulate, and the government only last month, you will recall, there was a clean air strategy which included, for example, smoke. this
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is government policy, this is outside of truss's current policy as well. and this is what she had to say about it. course we need regulation in our society. but some of the rules given the way consumers making legitimate choices and people being able to live her lives and have the life style live her lives and have the lifestyle they want. i don't think out lifestyle they want. i don't think our government's role should be to tell us what pace is we should have. too often we are told we are drinking too much, or maybe that is just me. eating too many doughnuts, or enjoying the warm glow of our wood—burning goves. sorry, i mean stoves. you can see that point, there is a lot of hot air that does emerge from the department. soa so a lot of hot air emerging from the department she used to be in
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charge of, criticising the government department, albeit in a light—hearted way, but name checking michael gove, the department secretary, and effectively denouncing him for being too keen to regulate. so where does that leave collective cabinet responsibility? george freeman had one word to describe what was going on inside whitehall at the moment. chaos. thank you, it will be interesting to see if michael gove decides to talk about trusses. the us supreme court has upheld president trump's travel ban, targeting several muslim—majority countries. the 5—4 ruling by the conservative majority gives president trump a big victory and, for the time being, ends a fight in the lower courts over whether the policy represented an unlawful ban on muslims. the president praised the supreme court's decision. today's supreme court ruling, just coming out, a tremendous success, a tremendous victory
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for the american people, and for our constitution. this is a great victory for our constitution. we have to be tough, and we have to be safe, and we have to be secure. at a minimum, we have to make sure that we vet people coming into the country, we know who's coming in, we know where they're coming from. we just have to know who's coming here. the ruling shows that all of the attacks from the media and the democrat politicians are wrong, and they turned out to be very wrong. and what we're looking for as republicans, i can tell you, is strong borders, no crime. what the democrats are looking at is open borders, which will bring tremendous crime. it'll bring ms—i3, and lots of others that we don't want to have in our country. it'll bring tremendous crime. our north america editor jon sopel is at the supreme court in washington. when the verdicts came out from the
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supreme court, he tweeted one word and said wow. as you said, he said it isa and said wow. as you said, he said it is a trip tremendous victory, up profound vindication. you will remember the chaos that was brought about by the travel ban when it was introduced. it has been highly controversial. what the supreme court had tojudge controversial. what the supreme court had to judge between was, on the one hand, was this donald trump acting in an unconstitutional way by effectively trying to ban muslims, oi’ effectively trying to ban muslims, or was this him acting in the best interests of the national security of the united states of america? and on that the supreme court has ruled that he was within his powers, it was within his remit to decide what was within his remit to decide what was in national security interests. and on those grounds he has won. it was a very narrow victory, 5—4 by the supreme court justices, was a very narrow victory, 5—4 by the supreme courtjustices, and of course opponents are saying this is giving the green light to bigotry, to bias, and they are very unhappy about it. at having taken the heat that he has over what is going on at the mexican border, tonight what has happened here at the supreme court will feel like a very big victory
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indeed. the duke of cambridge has become the first member of the british royal family to visit israel. he will visit the palestinian territories later this week. this report by our royal correspondent nicholas witchell contains some flash photography. in the hall of remembrance at yad vashem, prince william joined an act of commemoration at israel's memorial to the 6 millionjewish people who were slaughtered by the nazis in the holocaust. we unite with the blessed memory of 6 million of our people who died a martyr‘s death at the hands of the german nazis and their collaborators. william laid his wreath and stood for several moments in silence.
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the first official royal visit to israel has been a long time in coming, butjewish leaders say it is appreciated. this is a historic day. the excitement is felt throughout israel and britain, around thejewish world. and just to see prince william here is something very, very special. there was a courtesy call on israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and on the israeli president, reuven rivlin, who asked william to convey his hopes for peace to the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, when he meets him tomorrow. that aspiration for peace featured in a speech tonight at the british embassy in tel aviv, when william spoke of his hope that conflict might be ended. never has hope and reconciliation be more needed.
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i know i share a desire with all of you, and with your neighbours, for a just and lasting peace. tomorrow william will visit the most important of those neighbours, the palestinian territories. it will be an opportunity for him to gauge what chance there is of those hopes for peace being realised. nicholas witchell, bbc news, jerusalem. the former archbishop of glasgow has apologised and spoken of deep shame while giving evidence at an enquiry into alleged child abuse at home run by nuns. how scotland correspondent has this report. for eight weeks now, the scottish child abuse inquiry has been looking into allegations of abuse at residential homes run by the sisters of nazareth. today, 84—year—old archbishop mario conti, seen here closest to the camera, gave his side of the story and became the most senior member
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of the catholic church to give evidence to the inquiry so far. helen holland was five when she entered nazareth house in kilmarnock. for her, she says it was a place of cruelty and violence. i remember being kicked to the point where i almost felt like i was going to pass out, being sexually abused and told that it was the devil that was inside of you. children were controlled by absolute fear. children were terrified all the time. the scale of the alleged abuse came to light two decades ago in a bbc documentary from the time. the then bishop conti suggested some of those claiming to have been abused were motivated by money. there are some people before whom lawyers have been dangling a pot of gold. there are a whole range of possible motives. i am simply saying that some people have been making fantastical accusations against the sisters. archbishop conti told the inquiry he would not use that phrasing now. 20 years on from those comments, he said he was deeply ashamed
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of what has been revealed to have happened. he said he was sorry, and he asked for forgiveness. for helen, the apology didn't go far enough. i feel upset, to be totally honest with you. i was hoping that there would be compassion towards survivors, and i would love to believe in their today feeling that way. but the truth is i don't. i feel disappointed. the archbishop described allegations of a cover—up of abuse claims by the catholic church as unfair, but he will hope his testimony goes some way towards reconciliation with those who say they have been abused while in the care of catholic orders. laura gordon, bbc news, edinburgh. argentina have narrowly avoided an embarrassing early exit from the world cup, but the side's star player lionel messi has been criticised by some for a lacklustre performance in the tournament. richard conway has all the action from st petersburg. there's only one lionel messi.
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well, not in st petersburg today. with argentina's world cup hopes hanging by a thread, some looked for divine intervention. but it is messi who remains a beacon of hope to young and old alike, in what has so far been a disappointing world cup for his country. well, it is not long now until kick—off, and these argentina fans are determined that their world cup journey will not end just yet. facing nigeria, who could also qualify for the knockout rounds, argentina knew they had to win, whilst needing iceland to draw or lose to croatia in the other group game. and, with 14 minutes gone, they got off to the perfect start. commentator: messi collects, messi scores! their captain repaying the faith of his fans — all to diego's delight. half—time, and a final
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rallying call. but this has been a tournament beset by claims of unrest in the argentine camp, and after a video review, victor moses scored to cast a shadow once more. victor moses on the spot. victor moses rolls it home! argentina rode their luck, the referee reviewing and dismissing another penalty claim against them, in what could have been a knockout blow. then, with time running out, the two—time former champions sparked back into life. brilliantly finished! marcos rojo powering home, but did diego mistake the score for bei—i? with croatia defeating iceland, argentina's progress was assured, if they could just hang on to full—time — which they duly did.
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nigeria defeated, but for messi and co, a date with france now beckons, and their world cup dream is still alive. richard conway, bbc news, st petersburg. now it is time for a look at the weather, with tomasz. temperatures are set to soar once again on wednesday. i expect it will go over 30 degrees once more. we had temperatures already up to 31. i think the hottest place on wednesday will be scotland and northern ireland. here, it is not out of the question that we will hit the 30 degrees mark, so a scorcher on the way in mid week. not everybody likes it, in fact some of us can't wait for some cooler weather. there is some cooler weather potentially on the horizon, but not for a while. in the horizon, but not for a while. in the short term the high pressure is very much in charge of the weather, from scandinavia across much of western europe, stretching all the
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way down towards iberia. very little in the way of cloud. a bit of a breeze blowing on wednesday morning across southern and eastern areas. it may be the case that some of us in eastern counties will be waking up in eastern counties will be waking up to some grey skies. but very quickly it will disappear, and then it is virtually clear blue skies across the uk. once again the highest temperatures on wednesday are expected across scotland and northern ireland. at a very big difference between the coast, you can see aberdeenshire, those yellow colours close to the north sea. so we are going to see a strip of coastal counties where the temperatures will be significantly lower. for example, in norwich it may be only in the low 20s whereas across the western parts of the uk, where you see the deep oranges, temperatures might get into the 30
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