this is bbc news i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 8pm. a british nurse is found guilty of trafficking nigerian women — in a legal first for such a crime committed outside the uk. she will call me to say she needs money. she doesn't even know if i have enough to eat, she does not care about me, she only wants money, money. a firefighter tells the grenfell tower inquiry how he clung onto his colleague as he dangled out the window — trying to tackle the flames. mps say britain tolerated what they call the "inexcusable" treatment of us detainees after the 9/11 attacks. eu leaders arrive in brussels for a crucial summit — as theresa may reaffirms her commitment to continue brexit talks at a faster pace. 100 soldiers help tackle the blaze near saddleworth moor — as the authorities warn the fire may not be put out for weeks. also coming up — england expects in kaliningrad. belgium have the best chance in the first half — but it remains goalless

at half time. a british nurse has been convicted of trafficking five nigerian women into germany to work as prostitutes after subjecting them to "voodoo" rituals. josephine iyamu is the first person to be convicted under slavery laws that allow the prosecution of british citizens for overseas sexual trafficking. she subjected them to ritualistic ceremonies and forced them to swear oaths to hand over money to her. my colleague fiona bruce has been speaking to one of the victims. josephine iyamu the moment she was arrested at heathrow airport in 2016. she was leading a double life — an agency nurse in hospitals in london, but also a trafficker

of girls for sex. known by her victims as madame sandra, she lived in bermondsey but also owned this house in benin city in nigeria, impossible to afford on just a nurse's salary. she was also a local politician there, ironically pledging to fight for women's rights. josephine iyamu was a calculated individual who used her status as a rich, influential lady in nigeria to traffic and exploit these women. one of the girls she trafficked into europe, we're calling her kiki, was just 21 when she left her baby behind and was taken to germany. she promised me that when i came to germany she would take care of me. i will not want for anything. she'll always be there for me. kiki met iyamu, or madame sandra, in benin city, the epicentre of trafficking of girls in nigeria, enticed to risk the dangerous crossing to europe by poverty and by lies they're told

about the success of girls who've gone before them. kiki worked in this brothel, sleeping with up to 15 men every day, with madame sandra constantly pressurising her for money. so, what was daily life like for you in germany? it was not easy. i always start from two o'clock in the afternoon to six o'clock in the morning. she will call me to say she needed money. she doesn't know if i have enough to eat. she does not care about me. she only wants money, money. back in nigeria, kiki was told she would have to pay back 38,000 euros to get to europe. she had no idea how much that was and that it meant she would become a slave. i thought it was a small sum of money but when i got here i realised it was very big. kiki was trapped. she was told she had to pay it back 1000 euros a month. that was on top of her rent for a single room. i had to pay 120 euros rent every day, but if i didn't work, i didn't have the money to pay.

you had to pay how much? 120 euros a day? yes. that is a lot. every day. you'd have had to earn over 50,000 euros a year, which is about £43,000 a year. i mean, that's a huge amount of money. you'd never have been able to pay it back. i have to pay it. if not, they said i had to go, so i'll have nowhere to stay. josephine iyamu's sentence will be handed down at a later date. but what about kiki's future? she'd like to stay in germany. 0nce you'd finished working for madame sandra, what were your hopes for life in germany? that i could train as a hairdresser. and you'd like to do that in germany? that's what i would like to do. but she may not get the chance. kiki may well be deported back home. and, after all she's been through, back to where she started — living in poverty in nigeria

with only dreams of a better life. fiona bruce, bbc news. one of the first fire fighters to enter grenfell tower has been describing the moment he realised the blaze was spreading outside the building. charles batterbee thought he had extinguished the flames in the flat where it started. but when he looked outside he said it "rained fire" — as burning debris fell from the building. ?tom symonds reports from the grenfell tower inquiry. his report contains images of the fire which some may find distressing. early morning on the 14th of june 2017. firefighters charles batterbee and daniel brown, loaded with gay, are heading up grenfell tower. —— loaded with gear. the fire is just a glow in the kitchen window of flat 16. it was black with smoke. then they briefly

opened the kitchen door to blast water at the fire. charles batterbee said it was unprecedented. when that initial water went in, the change in temperature that hits me, i've never experienced anything like that in training or operationally. really? yeah. they put it out, but then he looked out of the window. itjust rained fire. it is jumping multiple floors, notjust one or two windows and frames that have failed. it's lots, and it was getting worse. the cladding. daniel brown went to fight the flames. i'm hanging onto danny by the strap, he's got a hose, which weighs a lot, and he's got a hose outside the window. he's lent right outside that window and i'm holding on for dear and digging my hips into the counter so that we don't both go together, and i've got my left hand on my radio and,

whilst he was hitting it, it was getting worse. low on air for their breathing gear, they finally retreated. i looked up at the side of the tower and... i'll never get over that shock. it was like a war zone, he said. within two hours, the advice to stay put had been abandoned. callers were now being advised to get out, if they could. but we didn't stop, we kept on with our efforts. yeah, so... and it wasn't the first fire to spread up the outside of a tower. lakanal house, 2009. daniel brown said that despite that the training for high—rise fires wasn't great. he'll give more evidence to the grenfell tower enquiry tomorrow. breaking news and in the second half

of england deposit match against belgium belgium have just of england deposit match against belgium belgium havejust scored taking the score to 1—0. so 1—0, not a great problem for england of course because they go through as did belgium regardless of the score tonight. and there was some debate as to whether it would be better to lose this match giving a study easier path towards further stages of the competition. i'm sure others would take a different view on that but that has been a subject of much debate might explain why belgium and england are playing defensive games thus far, but as i say belgium has scored. we will bring you more news on that as soon as we get it.

british intelligence agents knew about and tolerated hundreds of cases in which prisoners were tortured or mistreated by the americans or other allies after 9/11, according to a new report by mps. the intelligence and security committee said it was ‘beyond doubt‘ that the uk knew about us behaviour — and it described the americans' treatment of detainees as ‘inexcusable.’ 0ur security correspondent gordon corera has more. i mean the context was that period after 9/11, after the attacks in the wind there was huge pressure to gather intelligence to prevent more attacks, to save lives. and it was clear that for the us the gloves came off, but that britain was slow to realise what its closest ally was doing. even as some british officers reported from the field what they were seeing, and also i think this report reveals that they were more complicit in some of these activities than we previously understood. in 13 cases they witnessed mistreatment, in two cases they were party to it, in hundreds of cases they were providing questions when they suspected someone was being mistreated. in some cases they

actually paid, were offered to pay for rendition, now that's the process when you fly a detainee to another country with the expectation tortured, or mistreated. so a particularly top report from the oversight committee, but the oversight committee still felt they didn't even get to the bottom of it all because they weren't allowed to question some of the intelligence officers directly involved, only the heads of the agencies were allowed to speak to them, and that has led to calls from some campaign groups and from the formerjustice secretary, kenneth clarke, for a judge led inquiry to look at this again. i'm joined now by kartik raj from human rights watch. the campaign organisation root conducts research and advocates on behalf of prisoners held in a cce pta ble behalf of prisoners held in acceptable conditions around the world. what do you make of this report? the report confirms what

ngos like human rights watch investigated journalists have been saying for years and for over a decade. the best word i can think of for this kind of report. they were reveals layer upon layer of illegality. the line that seems to be adopted by the intelligence agencies originally was that these cases were no more than isolated incidents and they don't reveal any kind of pattern or behaviour and nothing to me if you like the british intelligence agencies could have acted upon or even protest against, having seen the report what do you think of that line of defence? gordonjust do you think of that line of defence? gordon just described members of cases detailed in report and to talk about 232 cases where the uk supplied questions to people where it knew or should have suspected they were being mistreated, 198 cases where it

received information back to my three cases where the uk offered financial benefits to another country for carrying out these conditions and these aren't isolated cases. they form a pattern and it's a pattern that they have been talking about for a long time. the more troubling part of the report is it list to reports. the second one talks about how the uk government has failed to learn the lessons from the failures of the time between two dozen one and 2010. this important issue of accountability here. on the one side it talks of a couple of cases where it looks like or is suggested that british officials, british personnel were quite party to mistreatment by others and not suggesting they were physically assaulting business, but that they we re assaulting business, but that they were present in the room or in some other way directly involved. those could be the subject of criminal action. what about the question of overall accountability, because the

impression left is still that we don't really know what happened. you mentioned rendition or otherwise the rule of people from one country via the united kingdom to a third country where they were interrogated and he did not have the same standard that we have it. we don't know who ordered those or authorise them and whether there was political involvement. those are all the open questions that the report leaves for us. questions that the report leaves for us. so you think there needs to be further investigation? the investigation and its findings say it has not reached the end of the road. he hasn't even been able to question people that they believed would have the information. there is a cruel irony to the word rendition. if you think about it in financial terms it's about a process of accounting were all the facts come out. in this case we're looking at a series of extraordinary rendition of torturing people but that final account remains elusive. thank you

very much for being with us this evening. around 100 soldiers have arrived to help firefighters in greater manchester tackle a moorland blaze that has been burning forfour days. fire brigade leaders say they fear it could last for weeks because of the continuing hot weather. the troops from the 11th battalion, royal regiment of scotland, have been helping put out the flames. there are seven square miles of moorland near saddleworth which have been smouldering with pockets of fire since sunday. judith moritz reports. in the battle between blaze and firefighter, there isn't yet a winner. belching and burning, fire has overwhelmed this land, but the effort has just stepped up. more boots on the ground. the army arrived this morning tojoin the fight. troops given masks, handed hoses and put straight to work. we got 60 guys split across the area, working with the fire service at a ratio of four to one. it's a warm day but we are well prepared with enough water and sun cream and guys are enjoying the job.

to get an idea of the scale of the task, took a ride to the top of the moor with a crew from bolton. it's very difficult, because it's clearly hot conditions, very smoky conditions, and up where we are right on top of the hill, the water supply is very limited. these firefighters are making continual journeys from ground level to take water to pumps higher up. this really is the fire front line. it's very hot up here, and you can see how smoky it is, and getting water to this level is like bringing buckets up a hillside on an industrial scale. this scene is repeated across this mooorland. it's one of six places where they are fighting the fire. there is help from the air, too. with no rain forecast, this is the next best thing, helicopters dumping water collected from nearby reservoirs.

crews have also come from as far as gloucestershire, with specialist equipment to cope with the peat puling these fires. fire gets deep inside it and they might call off the surface but it travels through the peat. they have a high pressure jet which gets deep within the peat. they will work until nightfall and be back again at first light, using everything in their power, both high—tech and low, to beat this fire for good. welljoining us now from near saddleworth moor is megan watson, she's at the railway inn. thank you for being with us this evening. tearing yourself away. what has been happening over the last two

days? have you been able to see or smell the fire? where i am we have a full view of the field and everything and i have been watching them put out one of the fires. they have done a very good job. the people have been helping locally or at least trying to provide things that the firefighters might find useful. yeah, our local tesco that the firefighters might find useful. yeah, our localtesco is that the firefighters might find useful. yeah, our local tesco is has been collecting things and getting donations from the village that they drive up there. what sort of things? water, baby wipes, cream, anything that they will desperately need and have heard all the lads are very hungry up there at the moment. they are putting long hours. presumably you don't remember a previous occasion when the weather has been

so occasion when the weather has been so like this that a fire starting one part of the more could spread so easily, and keep erecting a different places? i didn't know i could have been this bad. you're not at all worried about the risks? you are as officially a safe distance from it is yellow i personally am quite far away, i'm just lucky to be ona quite far away, i'm just lucky to be on a hilltop over the other side, but is a lot of housing and farms on the hill. it was coming very close to some of the houses on tuesday night. what have you regulars been saying? are they worried about how this is? the authorities something about it could be burning for weeks. another group of bikers have been up there putting in an offering the held overnight and all day, they seem to think this is going to go on

for weeks especially with the weather being as bad as it is. i've even heard it's going to be a drought and coin to continue for months. i don't know. drought and coin to continue for months. idon't know. let'sjust hope you will be able to keep the pub open whatever happens. well, i hope so. i said to people that are out there who want to come in and haveit out there who want to come in and have it drink its 20% off. i can't really offer them anything i've offered to feed the ones that have come in. i'm sure a cold find would be very much appreciated given the shortage of beer at the moment. thank you very much for being with us thank you very much for being with us this evening. sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's will perry. we will be talking about this england game. england playing belgium as we speak. and uneventful and forgettable first—half, but they have played 62 minutes now and england trailed belgium by a goal.

both teams are member already through to the last 16 it's already a case finding out who will finish first and second. a cracking strike from odd nine. he beat danny rose inside and clipped a curling strike into the back of the net. gareth southgate made eight changes from the winner of panama. no start for harry kane and many others, but so far it's probably going the way a lot of england fans have wanted it to with trailing a goal to nil. both sides might actually be playing more defensive in the hope of actually losing tonight. can you explain why people think that might be the case? as we said before, england will finish second in the group and it has been agreed that bizarre game and a weird atmosphere. keeping the ball and no one really going for the

victory. belgium have nine points and so this would mean england would ta ke and so this would mean england would take on columbia as it stands in the next round. they would have a much easier quarterfinal should they get through, because they would face either sweden or switzerland who stand in their way. if they equalise england or win the gay nude face japan in the last 16, but as you concede it would come up against brazil in the quarterfinals again think be on the same points and same goal difference as belgium. the pick of three fewer yellow cards at the tournament so far. still plenty to work out in the next next half an hour or so. i know you will keep us up—to—date in that. what sense are beginning of the mood out there among the supporters? we know in some ways that have been outnumbered. they certainly seem to be making a fair bit of noise in the stadium. a few choruses of god save the queen. if the party atmosphere.

you'd think the sabitzer mac and deciding game for england. as i said, going through in second position which is probably what they would have wanted. they are booing every touch and cheering every time they keep the ball or a player gets a yellow card because england do equalise there will be a situation where they come down to the yellow cards in england have three fewer than belgium. belgium would finish second if they get an equaliser. equally the fans out there in russia cheering a yellow card. a strange game and a crucial one in finding out who they will face the last 16. let's have a look at how today unfolded. the dramatic date in russia this afternoon. 16 minutes to play before the winners scored for columbia. nick watched the action. as the africa last hope senegal needed to draw on all their strengths. the stands were packed

with pride and passion which filtered onto the pitch. liverpool forward searched in columbia president also is also so problems. he had the video assistant referee not intervened he would have won a penalty but the referee changed his mind after watching replays. phil neville declared to challenge the best to tackle of the tournament. the tottenham defender saves columbia but they needed someone to help them win to avoid relying other results. losing the last tournament by zack top scorer to injury was a bit of a blow. if only this man had brought his boots he would not have fared any worse than his countrymen when word filtered through they were beating japan to call them fans celebrated as they owe their team had scored. as they could avoid any slip upsa had scored. as they could avoid any slip ups a draw would be enough, but that was not the only one senegal suffered. columbia did not need a

striker to ensure their progress. the centre back empowering them through as group winners. senegal's sent home thanks to the worst disciplinary record with japan. they the world cup without an african side in the last 16 since 1962. the book ofjonah continues and russia losing to poland. the japanese finish above senegal. the picked up to less cards. for some a nation has gone out due to a disciplinary record. marcus has gone extremely close for england. he hasjust record. marcus has gone extremely close for england. he has just gone right of the posts. more in sports day at 1030. the duke of cambridge has visited some ofjerusalem's most sacred religious sites, on the final day of his tour of the middle east. he spent time at the temple mount,

also known as haram al sharif — as well as the western wall and the church of the holy sepulchre. the duke also made a poignant visit to the final resting place of his great—grandmother, princess alice. this report from our royal correspondent nicholas witchell contains some flash photography. it is a city which has a sacred significance for the followers of three different faiths — judaism, islam and christianity. from the mount of 0lives, william looked over to the old city ofjerusalem, fought over in centuries past and still a place of dispute. 0n temple mount, venerated by bothjews and muslims, he visited the al—aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in the islamic faith. the imams who showed him around said william's visit had sent a message of hope and support. the church of the holy sepulchre is one of the holiest places in the christian faith. william was shown a spot where

it is said christ was crucified. the western wall is a sacred place for people of the jewish faith. it is the only surviving section of a jewish temple built more than 2000 years ago. william followed tradition and placed a note with his own prayer in the wall and then stood in silent contemplation. that he has been moved by what he has seen over the past few days in israel and yesterday in the occupied palestinian territories is not in doubt. this visit has achieved two things in particular. for britain, it has shown its evenhanded approach to the israelis and the palestinians. for william, it has shown he is more than able to handle such a sensitive visit. he returns to britain with his experience broadened and knowing that an important visit has been accomplished successfully. nicholas witchell, bbc news, jerusalem. now it's time for a look

at the weather with breaking news coming to us from infection rates reported by the afp news agency is that several people have been killed in a shooting at a newsroom in the state capital of maryland in the united states in annapolis. unconfirmed reports of these are appearing on agencies now several data reported to have died in the shooting at a newsroom in the capital annapolis. as the capital of maryland, the us state. more on that as soon as we get it and we have pictures here which are live pictures here which are live pictures of the building, advocates the building of the top of the screen there. coming through to us from local media. the reports on local media are that this is still

an active crime scene, in other words that the person who is carrying out the shooting is still in the building and obviously the police are attempting to contain the scene and take action against the shooter. we have no more details at this stage beyond that report. those look like uniformed officers and you can see people being escorted out of the building miserably and actuating people to then try to isolate whoever is conducting the shooting. we don't know which news organisation works out of that building which may be of the newsroom involved, but we do know that we have this as the latest from annapolis, the state capital of maryland and several people are dead in the shooting there this afternoon. this is mid—afternoon

from eastern standard time in the united states. we will bring you more on that as soon as we get it. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather now. images of what's again been soaring across the country. no change for tomorrow. another hot day on the way. that's what it is looking like this evening and temperatures still in the mid—20s and the lowlands of scotland and 10pm. does not happen very often of course. tonight cloudy again along these coasts and we will see temperatures around 11 degrees but out towards these. tomorrow starts fairly cloudy and some of these eastern counties in the sun comes out once again. temperatures west and north. easter was of the country will remain quite a bit cooler. talking run the high teens in newcastle and 21 in norwich. high

20s between western and northern areas. in the north it is turning just a little bit less hot. hello this is bbc news. the headlines this hour: a british nurse is found guilty of trafficking nigerian women in a legal first for such a crime committed outside the uk. a firefighter has told the grenfell tower inquiry how he clung onto his colleague as he dangled out the window, trying to tackle the flames. a report by mps accuses the uk security services of tolerating inexcusable treatment of detainess after 9/11. eu leaders arrive in brussels for talks, and despite warnings that time is running out to strike a brexit deal, theresa may says she's confident of making progress. let's stay with that story.

theresa may, who's in brussels for the latest eu summit,has said both the uk and the eu want to work towards a brexit deal at a faster pace. she's due to brief eu leaders over dinner on the progress of talks. but for the other 27 members, it's migration not brexit, that's their main focus, with germany's leader warning it could be a make or break issue for the eu. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. everyone's talking. buongiorno, tutti, buon lavoro. but is anyone really listening? it's the eighth time theresa may's had to walk this summit red carpet. but the cabinet at home still at odds over how life outside the eu should be. the prime minister arrives here knowing very well she has to move faster. both sides are keen to continue that work at a faster pace than we have done up till now.

and certainly we would welcome that. but can you really say it is going well when two years on you have european leaders saying britain has to get its act together? at every stage, last december and in march, we have come to agreements with the european union on the issues on which we discussed and agreed we will be talking about. now, we will be bringing the cabinet together within the next week. she hopes so, but with so many cabinet disputes at home, do they really believe she can up the speed? i do understand that it is difficult to come to agreements within her cabinet and within the uk parliament, but she has to. the problem is, to whom should we listen? are you worried about the lack of progress on brexit? yes. why? i don't have to lecture theresa may, but i would like britain to make clear their positions. we cannot go on to live with a split cabinet. they have to say what they want and we respond to that. and hear this

from the leader who is closest to the brexit problem that's hardest to solve. we're two years telling people that it can't be cherry picking. it can't be cake and eat it. so it needs to understand that we're a union of 27 member states, 500 million people. we have laws and rules and principles and they can't be changed for any one country, even a great country like britain. and any relationship that exists in the future between the eu and the uk isn't going to be one of absolute equals. 0uch. this is not a friendly competition. a lot more than world cup football strips are up for grabs. the future of our trade, migration, the irish border — it's all up for discussion, but not today. the eu has bigger problems on their mind with the migration crisis. yet the union does not want to budge. they believe they have the stronger game. it feels familiar now for theresa may to arrive here in brussels and be told, "get on with it," by her fellow european leaders.

remember, this was meant to be the summit when the deal was nearly there. that's far from a situation. time is now running short. the prime minister says she's optimistic but the uk is lonely and frustrated in the brussels routine. she needs to make a deal with her colleagues at home to find more useful friends around the eu table. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, brussels. earlier our reporter christian fraiser spoke to the bbc political editor laura kuenssberg and our europe editor katya adler to find out more about what theresa may was hoping to achieve at the summit. 0n on his way into the building today the dutch prime minister said we are going to get a plan from the british side in two weeks but it is just two yea rs side in two weeks but it is just two years too late. there is certainly

be frustration and also they understand what is difficult for theresa may to get her cabinet to agree but the problem for them is that they do not know who to listen to, should they listen to the foreign secretary or should they only listen to theresa may when she is sequestered away with european leaders so it is certainly tricky. the frustration has built over a two—year period. before she gets more traction here, read some may has to do a deal at home first.l wonder if angela merkel looks at theresa may and feels more sympathy with the divisions over her own side? even though the uk and eu are sitting opposite of each other and making unhappy noises at theresa may, there is a lot of sympathy personally with a leader who is in hot water at home because plenty of the leaders here have had that experience themselves and none less than angela merkel. lake theresa may, her example had been predicted

many times before and might theresa may she had been surviving another day. she used to be unassailable in europe but now she is coming in with a begging role in her own interior minister said to a begging role in her own interior ministersaid to her a begging role in her own interior minister said to her you have to come back from the summit with workable, pan—european solutions to stop the migrant problem or i will start taking german lot into my own hands. that isn't total defiance towards her and if he goes ahead after this summit, he could bring down her government. she has come here today saying if we cannot solve the migraine crisis it could be the beginning of the end of european union so she knows if there is a big show of disunity, the most likely political and is going to be hers unless she can really get some compromises out of the eu leaders and it is not going to be easy. the migraine crisis that highest for 2015 and i think there will be some compromise but whether it will be enough for angela merkel. that is

what british newspapers are urging theresa may to do, and if they cannot find a solution, she has to leave. that is one thing on the table but not just leave. that is one thing on the table but notjust by part of the press but people in her own team. i had a senior conservative tell me a couple weeks ago that he said to her you should walk out and she said in response i am told, that she can only walk out once and she may need to walk out during the next phase of the negotiations when they are really talking about the big issues around trade and migration in the economy. walking out of the talks is not the same as walking away with no deal, there is a sense of how much do you up the alan t —— up the ante. she made to the upper time with european leaders but when push comes to shove, the nt always get here, andi to shove, the nt always get here, and i think most people in westminster believe this as well, that the european union has a stronger hand to play here and you get that sense from westminster, it

is always about the two sides, the tory rebels who were stronger remainders have the right hand or did the brexiteer is always happy numbers and then you come here and it is just numbers and then you come here and it isjust a numbers and then you come here and it is just a very different thing altogether. the hope on the british side is as you go to the emergency summit in november, the unity of the 27 will start to fracture and national interests might start to come to before. but what national interest exactly because the eu holds all of the cards and i think there will be some pushback against there will be some pushback against the commission. is the money the leverage. security is the big leverage. security is the big leverage entries that may knew that from the beginning. it benefits from the uk intelligence and what we heard during that brexit negotiations is that we haven't heard so much before is that the uk also benefits from the european intelligence but there is an absolute feeling here that we need each other. whether it is over the rush poisonings in the uk recently

ordered cross—border terror attacks, eu leaders are not happy at the hard—line that commissioner has taken hard—line that commissioner has ta ken about sticking hard—line that commissioner has taken about sticking to the roles and will see some pushback there. these are negotiations and they are uncomfortable negotiations so everyone is going to try to stay strong. even though both sides today are going to threaten no deal, no one wants no deal, neither theresa may nor angela merkel and the rest of the eu leaders because it will be detrimental to everybody. they will do their utmost to avoid it. the european commission don't forget is the guardian of european rules and regulations. so they will never say let's bend this, and the and it is european leaders who will say we wa nt european leaders who will say we want to be flexible and if you look and this is what the uk will always say, you can bend rules and move rules as you like, the eu has always done that. when will it decide that it is expedient to do so? up until now they thought they had all the cards and did not need to but at some point there will be pushback

but i do not think as much as the uk would like. i think that is right but the difference for the other negotiations that we both covered over the years is there is a hard deadline near. there is a hard deadline near. there is a hard deadline of next march and there is a hope that a deal whether it is one—sided or like a phonebook of hundreds of pages, something has to be done in october or november so can go around the westminster parliament and other european parliaments as well because this is not just about a normal deal where the ratification process can be done afterwards, this has to happen before the article 50 clock runs out. there is always a possibility ofan out. there is always a possibility of an extension but no one wants that either. no one wants that but they will not let it get to that cliff edge time if they get close to it. the eu will say no, or maybe. we will bring you any more we get from the summitand we bring you any more we get from the summit and we are expected some

conclusions in the course of this evening. let's just update you now on the breaking news i was talking about ten or 15 minutes ago. this is an apple list, approaching 3:a5pm and this is about a mile east of washington, dc. we have confirmation from the local television station there, abc seven of multiple fatalities, they say they are quoting police in the city of annapolis, the state capital of maryland. that a number of people have been shot dead in the offices ofa have been shot dead in the offices of a newspaper, it is a daily paper published in an apple list, and it is in that building that we were seeing a little earlier on and we can see police and other emergency people in attendance. people were raising their hands above their heads to show they are not carrying any weapons and led by police out of the building into safety. the last

reports we have is that there is an active shooters somewhere on the scene and now it is being reported by local media that the police happy person was possible or the person they believed to be responsible for they believed to be responsible for the shootings in custody. if there aren't no other shooters in this incident, it is coming to its end but it is a shooting involving abc television involving multiple fatalities and we will have more on that as we get it and on the match between england and elgin am in a few minutes' time. but first, it is time to meet the author. —— england and belgium in a few minutes' time. the wives of henry viii, still cast a spell that never seems to break. jane seymour, the haunted queen, continues and allison weir's series of novels with the story of the third of his queens, marrying henry after the execution of anne boleyn, and giving him the only son he ever had. a birth that brought about her own death. this is fiction from a historian who moves easily from the politics

and statecraft of the tudor era to the inner lives of characters which she can only imagine. welcome. everyone thinks they know quite a bit about all the six wives butjane seymour springs very much out from the pages of this book and it is someone we know about surprisingly little, even now, even after all the of attention. that is absolutely true and there are ten two views of jane seymour. was she the unique and willing tool of an ambitious family and an ardent and powerful king? or was she as ambitious as her brothers and did she conspire to bring down the queen she served? how'd you describe the conclusion that you come to in the course of these pages? a novelist has to come down on one

view or another and i went through the sources forensically, looking to clues as to her character and there was no evidence apart from her saying she would denigrate ann bolyen in henry viii's ears a few weeks before and's fall, there is no evidence that jane colluded in ann's fall. and i think that she was largely, as she comes across. she was a woman of principle, she had moral courage, she was devout, she was gentle, she was kind and she was also submissive. indeed and she put up with so much. and died giving henry his only male child. yes, she did indeed. and the marriage seems to have been happy and i am in no doubt that henry genuinely loved her. it is interesting that you talk about the sources because you are a historian, of distinction and you're also writing fiction here and this is the third of your novels on the wives and obviously

three more to come. do you go back to original sources for the fiction as well as the history?