this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm. tests are being carried out on an unknown substance at the porton down chemical weapons lab, after two people fell criticially ill in wiltshire. charlie rowley and dawn sturgess were found unconscious on saturday. further testing is now ongoing to establish the substance which led to these patients becoming ill. at this stage, it is not yet clear if a crime has been committed. police are continuing to question a nurse, after arresting her on suspicion of murdering eight babies, and attempting to murder another six. new footage is released showing the children trapped in caves in thailand. rescuers say they won't try to bring them out until it's safe, and that could be months. also this hour: the government puts forward new proposals on how it will manage fishing in british waters after brexit. ministers say that from 2020, the new plans would allow a fairer

allocation of fishing opportunities. but others are warning of new barriers, to the eu market, for british fish. more than 2a million people watched england finally win a world cup penalty shoot out, making it the most—watched five minutes of television in six years. i'm sure we all wish to press them with the quality of our behaviour! and speakerjohn bercow gives mps a telling off in front of some very important guests, but who are they? we'll be speaking to one of them in the next hour. police in wiltshire say two people are critically ill

in hospital after being exposed to an "unknown substance". the man and woman, who've been named locally as charlie rowley and dawn sturgess, were found unconscious at a house in the town of amesbury, about eight miles from salisbury where a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in march. it's understood that tests are being carried out at the government chemical weapons research laboratory at porton down. duncan kennedy reports. four months to the day since the salisbury incident, and another mysterious substance in wiltshire. this time, the property seven miles away, here in amesbury. two people were taken to hospital after possible exposure to the substance, after police initially thought they might have taken a bad batch of cocaine or heroin. the man and woman are believed to be dawn sturgess and charlie rowley, who we understand live locally. and they are both said to be in a critical condition in hospital.

this man says he is a friend of the couple. he was sweating loads, dribbling, and you couldn't speak to him, he was making funny noises, rocking backwards and forwards. there was no response, he didn't even know i was there, it was like he was in another world, hallucinating. the bbc has been given this video showing the video on fold last saturday night. —— showing the incident unfold. a number of firefighters turned up at the property before the couple were taken to hospital. the police have now declared it as a major incident. it was initially believed that the two patients fell ill after potentially using contaminated, illegal drugs. however, further testing is now ongoing to establish the substance which led to these patients becoming ill. at this stage, it is not yet clear if a crime has been committed. the metropolitan police said today that following the events in salisbury in march, where sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned with nerve agent, they are now working with wiltshire police.

the metropolitan police haven't taken over the inquiry here in amesbury as they did with the skripal case but because salisbury is only seven miles away, the new incident has left many people here in amesbury deeply worried. at least five sites have been sealed off by the police, including this church in amesbury and this part in salisbury. —— this park in salisbury. public health england say it's not believe there is a significant health risk to the wider public, and testing of the unknown substance is still taking place. duncan kennedy, bbc news, amesbury. some more analysis now on this case which police are taking very seriously, with our security correspondent gordon correra. the police officials here in london, national security officials are taking this seriously, even though at the moment they stress they are keeping an open mind. now six months ago, this might have just been seen as a local incident. but the proximity to where the skripals were poisoned, and the similarity in some

of the symptoms this pair have exhibited, have led to those concerns and samples being sent to porton down. now it's entirely possible this could turn out to be some kind of drugs contamination, some other reason why they fell ill, which isn't serious in the national security or wider public health reason. that remains entirely possible. but there remains the concern that they could find in porton down some kind of nerve agent. if that was the case, it would seem highly unlikely that this pair would have been targeted by anyone. and then, you're facing the possibility that perhaps it's some kind of contamination, something left over from the skripals‘ poisoning, which haven't been protected. no those remain a set of possibilities, officials are trying to wait for those answers to come from porton down before they say anything. so the testing is crucial, and they're hoping for an initial assessment this evening. some breaking news preferably

scotland. this is in connection with the death and murder of six—year—old alicia macphail on the island of butte. please scotland are saying the man has been —— a man has been arrested in connection with this. alisha was listed as missing on monday, and her body was discovered ina monday, and her body was discovered in a wooded area in butte. please scotla nd in a wooded area in butte. please scotland are confirming a man has been arrested in that case, but they say despite this development, they are still appealing to anybody who has any information to come forward with that as possible. please scotla nd with that as possible. please scotland confirming a man has been arrested in the case of the murder ofa arrested in the case of the murder of a lisa macphail, a 6—year—old on the island of butte. —— a >> lisa: pale. police investigating the deaths of 17 babies at the countess of chester hospital have extended their investiagation to a second hospital.

liverpool women's nhs foundation trust say there is no suggestion that patients there came to any harm. a 28—year—old nurse, lucy letby is being questioned on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another six. judith moritz reports. lucy once said she enjoyed nursing babies as she could see them progress and support their families. now she is suspected of murdering eight infants and trying to kill another sex. today, —— another sex. please, detectives are still questioning the 28—year—old about the alleged murders and attempted murders. police say that their investigation is focusing on what happened at 32 babies at the countess of chester hospital between march 2015 and july 2016. the babies were all on the

neonatal units, which cares for poorly in premature infants. managers called in the police because they cannot explain the unusual number of fatalities and babies who came close to death on the unit. a murder investigation has widened beyond this hospital. during her training, lucy let me went on placement to liverpool women's hospital. today, the hospital has confirmed they are helping the police. they are reviewing what happened to babies on their neonatal unit during the nurse's time there, saying there is currently no suggestion and he came to harvard. since she was arrested, the police have also been at the home of her pa rents have also been at the home of her parents and hereford. tonight, the children's nurse is still under investigation, being asked to explain what happened to the babies in her care. judith martz, bbc news, chester. trawler crews have welcomed the government's new proposals on how it will manage fishing in british waters after brexit. ministers say that from 2020, they'll be able to negotiate access

as an independent coastal state, allowing a fairer allocation of fishing opportunities. but others are warning of new barriers, to the eu market, for british fish. 0ur scotland editor, sarah smith, reports from the uk's biggest fishing port, peterhead, in aberdeenshire. british boats are currently allowed to catch only 40% of the fish in uk waters. under eu rules the fishermen think are deeply unfair, and the government is promising will change. when we leave the european union, we'll have control of our territorial waters, and that means we can reverse what's happened in the past. in the past, we've had a situation where more than half of the fish that's caught in our own waters is caught by foreign boats. now we can say that we'll decide who catches that fish. now, of course, we'll negotiate with other countries, but we'll negotiate with our control in our hands. after brexit, the government say we will control the catch in all uk coastal waters, extending up to 200 miles out to sea.

british fishermen recognise that eu boats will still be able to negotiate some access to these waters, but they say they hope the uk will double their share. we need access to fish. if we can't get access to fish, well, the bigger picture is the business suffers. no access to fish, you've not got an income. are you confident the government will fight for the british fishing industry? i hope they do, i hope they do! there is, of course, always a catch. most of the fish that's landed here is sold into the eu, so we'll still need smooth and easy access to their markets. that, say the government, is a totally separate issue, unrelated to allowing eu boats to fish in uk waters. but the eu do not see it that way, and market access is a battle still to be fought. any barriers to free trade could be devastating for parts of the industry, like creel fishing for seafood. with all the stuff they catch,

it's only going to the continent, or 90% of it going to the continent. if tariffs get involved, the tariffs mean a hold up, and they can't have lorries sitting waiting at ports with fresh produce on them. a lot of the time the prawns are live, they've only got a matter of hours. there's a timescale in getting them to the market live, that will be lost. fishing is only a tiny part of the uk economy, but it's politically important. regaining fishing rights will be a highly symbolic example of taking back control. the government's made its position clear today. the eventual outcome, of course, will be subject to negotiation. sarah smith, bbc news, peterhead. we are nowjoined by labour mp luke pollard who is in our westminster studio. thank you for speaking to us this evening. 0nce

thank you for speaking to us this evening. once we decide what we will do, do you believe michael gove? that's been the spin and message from the government and from brexiteers to date. there's been an enormous amounts of promises made to the finished dish fishing industry about what the industry will look like post brexit. and that this matters because in the parts i represent, they have a thousand jobs relying on the fishing industry. we've already seen many of the promises made you turned on. the idea we would be leaving the common fisheries plan in the transition period was a promise made by brexiteers, including michael gove, right up until the moment the government u—turn only a few months ago, meaning we will still be in the common fisheries programme for the entirety of the transition period. what happens after that? we have to wait and see, but there has been a lot of grand promises made in the

white paper that was promptness published today, and i'm sceptical about how many of those promises can be kept by ministers, especially such a big deal that hasn't been made. selling ourfish into the european markets really matters, that's how we make our money. we export 70% of the fish that we cash in the uk, and we import 80% of the fish that we eat. so we do need smooth, frictionless barriers if we will continue to fight after brexit. do you think michael gove‘s words will reassure fishermen? i remember speaking to fisheries that theresa may went on to speak to, and they we re may went on to speak to, and they were concerned that access to a uk waters might be negotiated away as pa rt waters might be negotiated away as part of a future trade deals. is that still the concern pezzella i think it is, there are an awful lot of fishing communities that happens stunned by this recent government

u—turn who are now taking the government's words with more of a pinch of salt. but the detail on this really matters. so while we don't have an idea about what kind of customs rampant with my half, and we don't have an idea of what our trade deal with the eu will be, it makes the detail of how you sell in fresh produce and fish into the european markets much more confusing. there the potential that we leave the eu with no deal in a matter of six months' time. we need that transition period to british fishing communities to adapt to the change of rules to make sure we can maximise the most out of this opportunity, because there are more opportunities in theory with brexit. but the government could be doing so much more than now because the quota system that the government controls could be given to more of the smaller boats, so the small fillet —— fishing boats we have around the country, the backbone of british fishing, the government could choose to give them all quotas today if

they wanted to, they'll have to wait until after brexit. so that is why it is really important that when we look at what the secretary of state is saying, the warm coming from michael gove, we can realise that many of the actions he's promising after brexit, he could be doing now. but he's not, and we must ask why he isn't, and why is he choosing to put this in the brexit bucket waiting until down the line? there are lots of politics relying on fishing and brexit, and it was the poster child for the leave cause during the referendum. that's why government ministers have to deliver on it. but making grand promises that i'm still about sceptical about to the industry again today, they really have to deliver on this if they aren't going to be adversely affecting the british fishing industry right across the country as we get closer to leaving the eu. thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this evening. the headlines on bbc news. tests are being carried out on an unknown substance at the porton down chemical weapons lab, after two people fell criticially ill in wiltshire.

charlie rowley and dawn sturgess were found unconscious on saturday. police are continuing to question a nurse, after arresting her on suspicion of murdering eight babies, and attempting to murder another six. new footage is released showing the children trapped in caves in thailand. rescuers say they won'ttry to bring them out until it's safe, and that could be months. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's sarah. nearly 2a hours for england to digest and reflect on their dramatic match against colombia last night. a huge tv audience tuned in as they finally won a world cup penalty chewed up. the victory putting them into the quarterfinals where they will face sweden on saturday. dan

rowan reports. it was the site england fans feared they would never see, there team finally being able to wina see, there team finally being able to win a penalty shoot out at the world cup. the manager explaining the mindset in moscow that allowed his players to win one of sports's most famous hoodoo. we're trying to write our own history. they write their own stories, they don't have to be bound by the pressure of the past. they've done that in the style they play. if they could choose to win that way, you could choose to win that way, you could choose to win every time. when jordan henderson's penalty was saved by the colombian goalkeeper lessnau, most england fans would have feared a familiarfate. england fans would have feared a familiar fate. but this team was more resolute, with ten —— two men emerging as heroes. jordan pickford for his brilliant save, and son eric dyer who held his nerve to seal victory, sending it through to the

quarterfinals. how have big group the shoot out jinx quarterfinals. how have big group the shoot outjinx? i think that our biggest threat really... we just need to go again, and if it goes all the way on penalties, our mentality is to win the game. england who are backin is to win the game. england who are back in trading today have worked tile or slate, practising penalties and undergo psychological testing to help them pick those players best equipped to handle the pressure. their scientific approach has paid off. they have practised being under pressure, they have practise for a range of situations. it's speaking to the players a lot about their mindset, about playing with freedom, about not having the burden of expectations or the worry of making mistakes. as a result, it allows the players to express themselves more and perform at higher level the first of england's six... against

west germany. the goalkeeper now believes this go one step forward. i'm just elated, it's been so long since we have had a little bit of success. but looking at it now, it's there to get to the final, at least. i don't fear sweden or russia or croatia. i think we are capable of being those sites. if we play better, we can go all the way to the finals, which would be unbelievable. a well—organized youthful sweden side on saturday promises to be another stern challenge. but when the first in 28 years away. and if it has to be decided by penalties, at least these fans can now finally watch with a little more faith. caroline wozniacki was beaten by...

the champion became the biggest name to exit, it now means that five of the top eight women seeds have left the top eight women seeds have left the competition before the third round. makarova holding strong in that last set, despite squandering for match sets. she won the final match sets 7—5. serena williams raced into the third round in a devastating style, too powerful for the bulgarian qualifier victoria to. a 61-64 the bulgarian qualifier victoria to. a 61—64 when... the men's defending champion roger federer made a large work of his second opponent. title number nine is still on, having cruised into the second round on monday, the swiss was equally good today, meeting lucas let's go in straight sets. chris frame has

admitted he can understand why the tour de france organisers moved to block him from competing in the race before the anti—doping investigation into him was dropped. the writer will line—up for saturday's opening stage as the three—time defending champion was keen to move on from the to block his participation in the to block his participation in the race. i'm extremely grateful now that all the facts have been established, and to be able to draw a line by this episode now and move on and start bike racing again. it's certainly been a challenging period, but as they pointed out from the very beginning, i knew that i didn't do anything wrong so i always had hope that that would get to this point, and displays finally here. so i'm obviously extremely relieved, it's a huge weight off my shoulders going into this year's tour de france. that has all the sport for

now, i'll have much more for you in sportsday at 10:30pm. let's stick with the world cup for the moment, and last night's hero, goalkeeperjordan pickford. 0ur correspondent fiona trott has been to see where the sunderland boy grew up and developed his love of the game. this is what world cup celebration looks like. loud cheering. from leeds, to back gardens in birmingham... loud cheering. backbenchers in westminster... loud cheering. and in sutton coldfield, majorca and london... loud cheering. but here on wearside, nobody was celebrating harder than teachers atjordan pickford's old school in washington. during the lunch break today, they relived that world—class save. he was a mentally—tough kid in year seven and he wanted to win at every sport he took part in. in that penalty shoot—out, he showed the same characteristics we saw here, at st robert's,

in year seven. out on the sports field, pupils here are world cup crazy, and jordan pickford is their role model. just really proud because he went to our school and everything. when jordan saved that we were all over the place, we didn't know what to do. he's been on this field. he's been everywhere we have. we have the same chance he had. 0n the other side of the city at sunderland academy, jordan pickford and jordan henderson's former coach... he has known them both since they were eight years old. i had said to my missus that i could not watch much of it in extra time, so i came out of the lounge to go into the family room to watch it. but now looking back, i likened it to being an expectant father, pacing the floor, waiting for something to happen and hoping it would be something great. this was newcastle's fan zone last night. this afternoon, a much calmer scene, relaxing in front of wimbledon. thanks to the world cup, business is booming in this part of the city.

and if you do not have a ticket and visa for the quarterfinals, travel experts have said places like these may be the best way to watch. fiona trott, bbc news, newcastle. one of the thousands of england fans out in russia right now is billy grant, who was in the stands in moscow last night. he's also a podcaster and video blogger for the brentford site beesotted. we will speak to billy in just a moment, but first take a look at this video he sent us of the moment england won the penalty shoot out. so nervous, i feel sick. so nervous, ifeel sick. yes! cheering. singing.

let's speak to billy now, who joins us via skype from moscow. what brilliant pictures, i'm so jealous you were there. what did it feel like, and did you actually watch as that last penalty was taken? unbelievable feeling, it must be said. i watched it, and taken? unbelievable feeling, it must be said. iwatched it, and i've taken? unbelievable feeling, it must be said. i watched it, and i've been to every single england tournament they been in. 1990 world cup, 1998, argentina when they lost against them, i was there. 2004, argentina when they lost against them, iwas there. 2004, portugal. 2012, 1996 in the uk when they played... lost every single one except spain in 1996, but they've never won a world cup and all shoot out. and i have to admit, we were

1-0 out. and i have to admit, we were 1—0 up, and i thought this was absolutely fantastic. typical england, absolutely typical, there we go, and colombia were all over us at this point. but in the fans picked it up for england, and i thought we might actually do this towards the back end. when it came towards the back end. when it came to penalties, i thought that we were ok. but when that last penalty came up, idon't ok. but when that last penalty came up, i don't know if you can see this video, a guy ask me is crying. it's brilliant, he didn't stop! we've won, and he was crying! that penalty went in, and everyone went absolutely ballistic. the place went mad, the match finished around midnight, but we didn't get back to town until 2am. people in the stadium stade to hug each other. i put so many people, i can't hug anybody else any more. we've got plenty more hunting to come, we will

hug some swedes tomorrow! is that how i felt, that england fans were massively outnumbered by swedish —— colombian fans? england fans, it's quantity not quality. it's been quite nice because there is a tight—knit feel, everyone is enjoying themselves, there's a real friendliness between england the other fans. friendliness between england the otherfans. an friendliness between england the other fans. an unbelievable amount of colombians yesterday, a ridiculous amount in town, before i went out and england fans were chilling out and doing their thing, while colombians were out until 5am partying and playing their music. in the stadium, they were literally everywhere. they were properly everywhere. they were properly everywhere. then they got the goal and you could hear they were there.

but you can have the numbers, but it's all about the passion. there may have been to thousand england fa ns may have been to thousand england fans there, but we were properly passionate. you heard us singing, and when we sing, we sing with our hearts, and everyone was starting to feel that it may actually be coming home. be careful, be careful. and how to you rate our chances against sweden on saturday? if you get to the final, you still have to beat some really good teams like brazil. of course, i've had -- brazil has had a couple of stumbler is. spain is a home at the moment, so what is the definition of a good team? a good team is one who plays good football in the day, but also plays a good game against the opposition. sweden, i have lots of respect for them, i love their fans, but don't forget we have come out of

a european qualifying campaign. a lot of people complain about england and their qualified campaigns, that it's boring, but we've won eight and drawn two of them. the young players pulling them through, we learned how to manage ourselves and the game. we may have had a technically... we managed to get result out of them, but the game might not be the best and watch, but we get the right result, and that has put us in good stead against you like sweden. their european, so we will have to be patient and build our game. so i'm fairly confident that we will do something, but i'm still keeping it quiet quiet. i think the swedes are equally or even more nervous about us at the moment now. have you then gotan us at the moment now. have you then got an open ticket home? you're going to get me in a lot of trouble

with this one. i'll be going home next week, but as the english say, we are going home... a few negotiations might have to be put into place. i'm already lining up the negotiations because i'm feeling fairly confident we will going at least to the semifinal. i got my google maps out and trying to work out how to get back to moscow and find places to say. you didn't hear it here first. keep that quiet. thank you very much, we are very jealous that you are out there, i hope you have a fantastic time, thank you very much. now it's time for a look at the weather. we've had some warm sunshine today, that we have seen a few showers, one or two that we have seen a few showers, one ortwo in that we have seen a few showers, one or two in scotland, a few more and parts of england and wales. the showers that have formed should tend to fade away overnights, it's become dry. there will be much missed and fog, most of it will be kept in the north sea. probably a bit warmer

tonight, noticeably so in parts of the uk. a band of cloud coming into scotla nd the uk. a band of cloud coming into scotland and northern ireland, the cloud breaking up in the afternoon. plenty of sunshine for england and wales, but a few thundery downpours here and there, perhaps in wales, perhaps a great chance to be coming up perhaps a great chance to be coming up in the southeast. but lots of places will be dry, the others very warm, but noticeably cooler than today in scotland and northern ireland. temperatures will pick up as we head into the weekend. still a lot of dry weather around plenty of sunshine, and for england and wales, those temperatures will be close to 30. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. tests are being carried out on an unknown substance at the porton down chemical weapons lab, after two people fell criticially ill in wiltshire. charlie rowley and dawn sturgess were found

unconscious on saturday. further testing is now ongoing to test the substance which led to these patients becoming ill. at this stage, it is not yet clear if a crime has been committed. police arrest a man on suspicion of murdering 6—year—old alesha macphail, who went missing on the isle of bute on saturday. police are continuing to question a nurse, after arresting her on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another six. the government puts forward new proposals on how it will manage fishing in british waters after brexit, which it says will allow a fairer allocation of fishing opportunities. but others warn there will be new barriers, to the eu market, for british fish. and speakerjohn bercow gives mps a telling off in front of some very important guests, but who are they? we'll be speaking to one of them in the next half an hour. prime minister's questions today was certainly energetic.

a lot of shouting and rowing, some mps even got a telling off by the speaker of the house, john bercow, who had to remind them of a very important guest vistiorfrom the us. is very unfair on the leader of the scottish... order! and i remind the house, indeed i inform the house most certainly for the first time that we are today visited by an american state senator and his wife, who i had the great pleasure of meeting earlier this morning. i am sure we will wish to impress the two of them with the quality of our behaviour. mr ian blackford. and the vistor mr bercow was speaking about there was, senator ryan weld, who is here with me in the studio. iam i am fascinated by this because i

spend every wednesday watching prime ministers questions. spend every wednesday watching prime ministers questionslj spend every wednesday watching prime ministers questions. i just want to know what you make of it sitting there watching it today. know what you make of it sitting there watching it todaylj know what you make of it sitting there watching it today. i enjoyed watching in the morning, it is seven o'clock in the morning in the states but i do not miss, i stream it live and watch every wednesday. you watch every week? i do. we do not have the dynamic in the united states. we do not have back—and—forth with our elected officials, with our leaders so it is a very interesting thing to watch because the leaders here are held to a higher level of accountability because they get questioned about their policies. every week, the premise there has to come and answer for 45 minutes of questions. you are sitting in the public gallery watching it and what did you make of what you saw, they said the chamber looks much smaller in real life, or much bigger come do you think? i said that to my wife. it looks a lot smaller in person. you think? i said that to my wife. it looks a lot smaller in personm is crowded, are you surprised price

by the north levels. not really because i watch it every week. i kind of expected that, but it was interesting, because you are able to hear what people are saying instead of just hearing cheers hear what people are saying instead ofjust hearing cheers in the background. as you said, the american system is very different. can you imagine a scenario where donald trump would be there and take questions like that from lots of people including his opponents?” think it would be interesting to watch any president, because the president makes an address to congress every year but they do not ta ke congress every year but they do not take questions. when they talk to the media it is at their own will and pleasure as well. it is a much less of that that we see from our leaders. are you talking about looking at british politics, and we are looking at american politics. there is so much going on. president trump is going to visit here very soon. what he has been like watching that president, who is clearly controversial, too many people, what hit been like watching a close—up? there have been a lot of moments when things have gone very well for

this president. i think his engagement with china, which led to further engagement with both korea leading up to the meeting. i think you did a very good job. bring something together that had not happened ever before. there are areas obviously there's a lot of controversy in our country, in large pa rt controversy in our country, in large part disagreeing with a particular policy, so it is interesting to see because it is day—to—day for us. it is wall—to—wall coverage and we see it everywhere you look. there it is. how do you feel sometimes when there are controversial things that have happened, controversial things that present truck has done and the recent we have heard about is the separation of children. illegal immigrants coming across the border which we has now come back on. how you feel when you see like that? do you feel when you see like that? do you feel when you see like that? do you feel you can argue the case against it if you do not agree with the? it depends on the issue. with that particular issue, the president saw what was going on and what was in place and signed the executive order to change it. sometimes that

kind of expresses how the power of the people in the voice of the people, because there was a lot of displeasure about that, and it led to his reversal of it and executive 0rder. to his reversal of it and executive order. do you think you are going to go back and suggest to your american collea g u es go back and suggest to your american colleagues that actually prime ministers questions, president questions by the way to go? only if ido questions by the way to go? only if i do not have to ask. i am still intrigued that you enjoy watching it. are there americans that watch it? my wife has started to watch it because i watch in the morning and she is intrigued as well. we got the opportunity to meet the speaker and she knew who he was because she enjoys watching him run the show every wednesday morning. two other collea g u es every wednesday morning. two other colleagues or politicians?” every wednesday morning. two other colleagues or politicians? i do not think so. when i mentioned to people i was going to be here people look to me it and did not know what i was talking about. you are here on holiday. this was you coming here and having a look at the house. did

the speaker show you around? did you go into his, he has a house behind parliament. we were fortunate enough to meet before the session and a general meeting greek and he showed us around. is quite impressive. it was gorgeous. i noticed coming on the tube, lots of tourists, american tourists come to london. they were disappointed because big band is currently covered in scaffolding. i have heard people on the tube saying is not there any more. were you surprised that there might be a little bit of repair work going on? i watched the news over here so i knew about that. i have been here before and i saw it before, my wife was disappointed. you'll have to come back when it is all done. i'm sure on some point it will be. thank you for coming to speak to us and start to disappoint your holiday, but thank you for coming. bbc news has been told that the official group which campaigned for brexit in the eu referendum two years ago

is expected to be found guilty of four charges of breaking electoral law. the draft of an investigation into vote leave concludes that it broke spending limits and failed to comply with some rules. but vote leave's former chief executive, matthew elliott, said he believed they'd acted both within the spirit and the letter of the law, and a 500 page dossier, rebutting the claims, had been submitted to the electoral commission. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg spoke to vote leave's former chief, matthew elliott, and asked him why he disputes the draft report. they have not followed due process. they have listened to one side of the story, so these so—called whistle—blowers who came out in march, the they have been the commission to have interviews. we have offered to go in for interviews, both at a board level and also the staff level. they have accepted any interviews from our side. they also have not accepted any the fact we are doing an internal investigation of the events. we got outside it experts to look through all our e—mails. we have several teams of lawyers to actually pieced together what happened two years ago to the referendum.

and actually when we look at all the evidence, all the facts, actually they stack up on our side. isn't it the case that you are just trying to get your excuses out here? not really. what we are saying is can they look at our side of the story? there is a due process here. they have heard one side of the story. when we have made our submission and our response, they should look at our side of the story as well and basically revisit that conclusions. do you dispute though that your campaign told a donor to pass more than £600,000 to much smaller campaigns, one run by student in his early 20s, and then discussed elements of the campaign. you used the same it company. 0n whose planet is that not coordination? there are lots of different elements here and the elements on the e—mail you talk about was one small part of the report. crucially, it does not look at the context around that e—mail and if you look at the context, which is what we have done, we've pieced together painstakingly

going through e—mails, interviewing people, what actually happened at what point. literally, hour by hour in some cases, and all of those e—mails are completely fine. we follow the rules at all times. to many of our viewers, this will sound like you are bending the rules, pushing the limits and again, you may be innocent in theory but it sounds like you are guilty and practise. i believe we acted both within the letter of the law and also the spirit of the law, and the spirit of how you should conduct a campaign. we got the designation, vote leave, as the official designated campaign for leave, on the basis that we would be working with other groups. we would not be solely working on our own, we work alongside other groups and encourage them and encourage their activities and that is what we did for throughout the campaign, to make it a broad—based campaign, so we followed, yes, the letter of the law but also the spirit of running a positive campaign. kyle taylor from fair vote uk gave his response to the findings. he spoke to our political correspondent alex forsyth earlier. there is not some

grand conspiracy here. there is the law. you either follow it or you do not. if you did not, then you should be punished for that. the bottom line of course is is it really the case that whether or not they properly declared some donations or spending or were within limits or coordinated with smaller campaigns, do you really think that would have affected the outcome of the referendum? i do not know if that is relevant because to me, cheating is cheating. if you win the gold at the olympics and then they discover you are doping, you do notjust keep it because it has artie happened. you get your medal taken away. we cannot reward cheating, because if we do not stop at some point, it will carry on forever. there are people that will say this is just politically motivated. this is another opportunity to try to overturn the referendum result and stop brexit. i think what is important is we are not arguing a position on brexit itself and all of this evidence has been brought forward by people who worked for the leave campaign. 0r who packed the leave campaign. what we are pushing for is a fair vote. and it is as simple as that. the outcome of that, we will not take a position on. it is simply that it should happen

because people deserve to have to have their will actually be certain that it is to dictating the future of our country. so what does a fair vote mean in this circumstance? if the electoral commission sticks to these draft findings, and suggests that vote leave the did break the law. what is it that you want? is it a rerun of the original referendum? i think it is the question itself is going to be highly contested and should be discussed, but for us it is about electoral commission reform before there is another vote. let's hand over investigation and prosecution to the police. let's say that you cannot hand large sums of money to other campaigns any more. let's had the spending reports online. and above all else, let's really think about what we want to do in digital spaces. we think we should have a pause on digital ads in elections until there are proper regulations. imprints on digital advertising. two clicks to see why an ad is targeting you. we need more transparency to be certain that the outcome of these elections is truly free and fair. kyle taylorfrom fair vote uk, giving us his views there. and we will have to wait for the release of the draft report by the elcetoral commission to see whether any changes have been made to these draft findings.

the headlines on bbc news. tests are being carried out on an unknown substance at the porton down chemical weapons lab, after two people fell criticially ill in wiltshire. charlie rowley and dawn sturgess were found unconscious on saturday. police arrest a man on suspicion of murdering six—year—old alesha macphail, who went missing on the isle of bute on saturday. police are continuing to question a nurse, after arresting her on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another six. an update on the market numbers for you. here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. efforts are continuing in northern thailand to work out the best way to rescue the 12 boys and their football coach who've been trapped in flooded caves for 11 days now. medics have reached them,

they're being given food and the authorities are trying to put in phone lines so that the boys can speak to their families. but they say no attempt to rescue them will be made until it can be done safely and that could take months. 0ur south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports from the scene in chiang rai province. no longer alone. the trap boys now have an army doctor treating them. they even managed a smile. they are being given foil blankets to keep them warm. they are painfully thin. the food is coming, promises one of the divers. up on the surface, they have been reversing for this scenario everyone here is hoping for. getting the boys out off to hospital. but it will not happen

soon. we need to be 100% confident soon. we need to be 10096 confident in order to get the boys out. and date do not have to come out at the same time. we are assessing the situation and if there is a risk, we will not move them out. the options confronting this rescue operation arejust as confronting this rescue operation are just as tough as when they found the boys. they are healthy enough that they say giving them some basic diving training and pulling them through the flooded tunnels one by one is feasible and yet we have spoken to sources inside the tight diving team that state that is still too risky, they may still have to leave those boys down there for the full 4—5 months of the rainy season. we visited the class of the football tea m we visited the class of the football team captain and make both trapped in the caves. did they have a message for their classmates? i want

them to get healthy, to be patient, she said, and to come back safely so they can be with us again. come back quickly, she said, there is lots of homework waiting for you. other school friends have been down to the cave entrance to see the rescue effort. and to sing the good wishes. spirits are high here. but the task of the divers, either in extracting the boys or sustaining them underground is formidable. they will need all the help they can get. jonathan had, bbc news. the huge moorland fire near stalybridge in greater manchester may have been started deliberately, according to police. the force is investigating reports that people were seen lighting bonfires on the moorland 11 days ago, shortly before the fire was first reported to emergency services. the blaze went on to cover several square miles and is still burning.

a nurse who became the first briton to be convicted for slavery offences overseas has been jailed for 14 years. josephine iyamu trafficked five nigerian women to germany to work as prostitutes. she was arrested at heathrow airport in 2016. judge richard bond told her her vile actions exposed the women to a real risk of death. tomorrow, the national health service will be 70 years old. there'll be events to celebrate its birthday all over the uk. one and a half million people now work for the nhs, making up the biggest care team in the world. adina campbell has been to meet one family who've been part of the nhs for four generations since the 1960s. my name is elaine unegbu and i am a retired nurse. my name is ngozi?edi—osagie and?! am a consultant neonatologist. my name is ndidi edi—0sagie and i am a third—year medical student

at king's college london. for this family in manchester, working for the nhs has provided lifelong careers. well, i was brought up around hospitals because my mother was a nurse and my grandmother was a cook, and my grandmother looked after us a lot and we would come to the hospital and wait for her, while she was finishing work, to come and pick us up. i was the first nurse in my family, and i think i am still the only one, because my familyjust thought nursing was a bit heavy and they tried to dissuade me, but i loved the uniform and that is why i went into nursing. and now your daughter is also following in your footsteps. she is. what is it like to see your daughterflourish? well, i must say, when she first said she was going to do medicine, i tried to dissuade her, actually. but in the end i was really pleased that i had been such a good role model for her. because, ithought, there are so many other things you can do, and when you are in a profession, you always think the grass is greener on the other side.

but i actually really enjoy myjob and she said to me, "mum, but you love yourjob," and i do love myjob. so i am quite pleased that she had decided to become a doctor in the end. and it is hard work — the long hours, the shifts, that has not put you off? no, i do not know what else i would be doing, to be honest. it is sort of... i have just got used to it. and all my friends are in the hospital with me. my mother has recently become associate medical director. i think you are one of the first black women in this position as well, in the hospital, so, i think that is a really, really proud achievement. and i am really proud of her, and we all are. no pressure then, your children years down the line, are they going to continue this legacy? i think we will all get tired of it by then, probably go into something else. who knows? my experience, i suppose, is very different to my grandmother's and is very different to my mother's and probably will be different to my daughter's, but the fact that we have all been able to contribute and we all enjoy what we do, i think that is a great testament to the nhs that we work in and we all love. scientists in london say seals in the thames estuary could be

consuming tiny bits of plastic found in household products like shower gels and clothes. experts at the natural history museum have been carrying out dissections to find out. a warning, this report by tom edwards contains graphic pictures of a seal being cut open. this great seal was found on the beach at. she was 20 years old. now these scientists are trying to find out if sticks and fibres can be found in this the top it needs a dissection. yellow that we have found what they are mostly eating is micro plastics so is, what we have describes as less than a grain of. we wa nt describes as less than a grain of. we want to know whether the plastics in the fish whether they move into

the seal and whether they accumulate. it is also going to the tens. the pollution through fish eating shrimp and then the seals are eating the fish and this great going up where we are polluting our animals. seals are flourishing. there are now thousands of them and researchers have thought with what they were examining had been hit by a boat. but in the back of the head they found this. what looks like a bullet. they now think the seal was

probably illegally shot. the seal was also pregnant. this dissection eventually hopes to see if the micro plastics from fish end up in seals. these are early days and trying to understand the impact of plastic. these are early days and trying to understand the impact of plasticm isa understand the impact of plasticm is a new field just discovering how far the plastics are permeating animal bodies and the environment. a field of great entrance at the moment. it is one of the reasons why this seal has been looked at today. the r spca is now investigating the shooting. the results of the search for plastic will be known in a few months. it is expected to confirm just how far plastic fibres have got into the food chain. tom edwards, bbc southeast. now... if you woke up this morning determined to join the england team in remote samara for saturday's quarterfinal, you may want to think again.

a flight will cost more than a thousand pounds, and you'll need a russian visa — or official fan id, which only comes with a ticket to the game. phil mackie has been to a travel agent in staffordshire to find out more. loads of people are already thinking, i wonder if i can get out and watch the quarterfinal because i'm afraid the bad news it is going to be expensive and there are a lot of caveats, so i have come to a travel agent here in south staffordshi re to travel agent here in south staffordshire to get the lowdown. to see if you can get there if you really wa nt see if you can get there if you really want to. you are the expert, so is there a chance of getting out to the game on saturday if you wa nted to the game on saturday if you wanted to? yes there is most definitely a chance. the flight would incorporate two stops, although you could fly from birmingham airport, but it is going to be expensive, about £1523. you have to have an official ticket and you do not need a visa. if you do not have an official ticket then you

have got to attain a visa from the russian embassy. and we just looked, it isa russian embassy. and we just looked, it is a 22 hour drive at the moment. there is an internalflight. there is an internal flight and people during the world cup have been using the train system as well. if i needed to get a visa, would it be conceivable possible to get one in the next couple of days? yes it would be, but it would we do not know how busy it is at this stage, andi know how busy it is at this stage, and i would think, we could get one but that again would be costly. it would be through some sort of courier service to do it and that has an expense. planning for the next round might be a bit easier. thank you very much. that is the a nswer thank you very much. that is the answer i think. if you want to go for saturday, probably forget it u nless for saturday, probably forget it unless you have an official ticket and perhaps if you are an optimist, it is time to start thinking about

the semifinal with a final. then you might stand a chance. it is time to look at the weather. large parts had a lovely day. we had some showers coming into the southeast inside him 25. this was the scene standard today at hampton court. the showers tended to decay. we had some heavy downpours across south wales into the west country and in this line of showers across the m4 corridor or into greater london. they are pretty much gone, there's very few of those left, so it is generally dry and find out there. we will see any remaining showers just tending fade away so it is with the dry overnight. not much missed and low cloud tonight, most of it is in the north sea. the westerly drift is pushing it away. a

warm night, noticeably so. to the north we have a weather front coming in. it is bringing a band of cloud, it is another one of these weak weather fronts that is not giving much rain at all. what it does do is the changes where are error is coming from. we have got wins from the atlantic coming in behind the weather front across scotland and northern ireland whereas we still have this continental wars in wales, and temperatures will rise quickly in the sunshine. we will see a bit more sunshine across scotland and northern ireland. as the culprit here, it bubbles up further south across the southern england and southeast anglia and into wales. 0ne or two isolated showers. it could be heavy and there may well be thunder. it will be hit or miss. 0f heavy and there may well be thunder. it will be hit or miss. of course we have got some high temperatures across england and wales. a different story for scotland and northern ireland. those temperatures are significantly lower than today. it was about 29 degrees, that was the hottest place in the country.

and more heat to come across england and wales. if you have any showers, it will probably be a dry day. we are starting to see the temperatures beginning to lift on friday but especially into the weekend. scotla nd especially into the weekend. scotland and northern ireland still 30 or31. scotland and northern ireland still 30 or 31. england and wales in places. we are back to that sort of heat. that is going to be around into this weekend as well. we have high pressure in charge of our weather for the weekend, and another wea k weather for the weekend, and another weak weather front in the far northwest. bringing little or no rain. dry weather into the weekend, light winds, strong sunshine and those temperatures not far off of 30 degrees. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. two people "critical" after exposure to an unknown substance here in the uk, a few kilometres from salisbury where the former russsian spy sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned. we are keeping an open mind as to

the circumstances of this incident, and will continue to work... new footage of the boys trapped in caves in thailand. rescuers say again they won't try to bring them out until it's safe, and that could be months. poland's chiefjustice turns up for work, in defiance of a law forcing dozens of seniorjudges to retire early.